Quick Definition
a girl, little girl
Strong's Definition
a (little) girl
Derivation: neuter of a presumed derivative of (a maiden);
KJV Usage: damsel, maid
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κοράσιον, κορασίου, τό (diminutive of κόρη), properly, a colloquial word used disparagingly (like the German Mädel), a little girl (in the epigram attributed to Plato in (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 33; Lucian, as. 6); used by later writers without disparagement (Winers Grammar, 24 (23)), a girl, damsel, maiden: Mat_9:24; Mat_14:11; Mar_5:41; Mar_6:22; Mar_6:28; (occasionally, as in Epictetus diss. 2, 1, 28; 3, 2, 8; 4, 10, 33; the Sept. for πΗςΒψΘδ; twice also for ιΗμΐγΘΜδ Joe_3:3 (Joel 4:3); Zec_8:5; (Tob_6:12; Jdt_16:12; Est_2:2)). The form and use of the word are fully discussed in Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 73f, cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 42f.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κοράσιον korasion 8x
a girl, damsel, maiden, Mat_9:24-25 ; Mat_14:11 ; Mar_5:41-42 ; Mar_6:22 ; Mar_6:28
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κοράσιον , -ου , τό ,
(dimin. of κόρη ),
[in LXX chiefly for H5291 , Rth_2:8 , al. ; in Joel 4:3, Zec_8:5 for H3207 ;]
a colloquial word which survives in MGr . (Kennedy, Sourcs, e154), girl, maiden: Mat_9:24-25 ; Mat_14:11 , Mar_5:41-42 ; Mar_6:22 ; Mar_6:28 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κοράσιον [page 355]
P Strass I. 79 .2 (a deed of sale B.C. 16 15) κοράσιον δουλικόν , BGU III. 887 .9 (A.D. 151) πέπρ [ακα τὸ ] κ̣[ο ]ρ̣[ά ]σ̣[ι ]ον δηναρίων τριακοσίων πεντή [κοντα , ib. 913 .7 (A.D. 206) δουλικὸ [ν ] αὑτῆς κοράσιον a female slave, and P Lond 331 .5 (A.D. 165) (= II. p. 154), where a certain Cosmas is hired σὺν ἐπιστή (μοσι ) . . . τρισὶ καὶ κορασίοις τέσσαρασι ( l. τέσσαρσι ), with three . . . and four girls (not lads as Ed.) to assist at a village-festival (see Wilcken Archiv i. p. 153, iii. p. 241). The word, which survives in MGr, is late and colloquial (cf. Sturz Dialect , p. 42 f.), and the idea of disparagement which old grammarians noticed (cf. Lob. Phryn. p. 73 ff., Rutherford NP , p. 148) reappears to some extent in the above papyri, though it is wanting in LXX and NT ( cum nulla εὐτελισμοῦ significatione ); see Kennedy Sources , p. 154.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κοράσιον κοράσιον, ου, τό, [Etym: Dim. of κόρη,] "a girl, maiden", Anth. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κοράσιον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of κόρη), [in LXX chiefly for נַעֲרָה, Rut.2:8, al.; in Joel 4:3, Zec.8:5 for יַלְדָּה ;]
a colloquial word which survives in MGr. (Kennedy, Sourcs, e154), girl, maiden: Mat.9:24-25 14:11, Mrk.5:41-42 6:22, 28.†
(AS)