Luke 2:40

The child grew, etc. The Jews marked the stages of a child's development by nine different terms : the new born babe (Isaiah 9:6); the suckling (Isaiah 11:8); the suckling beginning to ask for food (Lamentations 4:4); the weaned child (Isaiah 28:9); the child clinging to its mother (Jeremiah 40:7); the child becoming firm and strong (Isaiah 7:14, of the virgin mother); the youth, literally, he that shakes himself free; the ripened one, or warrior (Isaiah 31:8).