Greek noun (neuter) · G5040
τεκνίον
tekniontek-nee'-on
children
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tekníon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5040is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5040
an infant, i.e. (plural figuratively) darlings (Christian converts)
The King James renders it: little children.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
teknion is rendered "children". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Seven of the uses stand in 1 John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
The first use
Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
John 13:33τεκνία
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Little children8
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τέκνον | teknon | child | Uses99 |
| τεκνογονέω | teknogoneo | to have children | Uses1 |
| τεκνογονία | teknogonia | childbearing | Uses1 |
| τεκνοτροφέω | teknotropheo | to raise children | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- τεκνία8
The grammar of each form
- noun · vocative (address) · neuter plural8N-VPN
John
one use
Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
- τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Little children
1 John
seven uses
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- Τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Little children
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
- τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: little children
And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.
- τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: little children
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
- Τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: little children
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- Τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Little children
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: little children
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
- τεκνίαteknianoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Little children
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.