Greek noun (neuter) · G5043
τέκνον
teknontek'-non
child
99 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: téknon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5043is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 23 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5043
a child (as produced)
The King James renders it: child, daughter, son.
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
teknon is rendered "child". It stands 99 times in the Greek text, across twenty-three books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:18“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18τέκνα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-three of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- children76
- child15
- Son4
- a child2
- sons1
- to children1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| τεκνίον | teknion | children | Uses8 |
| τεκνογονέω | teknogoneo | to have children | Uses1 |
| τεκνογονία | teknogonia | childbearing | Uses1 |
| τεκνοτροφέω | teknotropheo | to raise children | Uses1 |
All 99, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings 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
- τέκνα63
- τέκνον16
- τέκνοις8
- τέκνων7
- τέκνῳ3
- τέκνου2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural33N-APN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural26N-NPN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural8N-DPN
- noun · vocative (address) · neuter singular8N-VSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural7N-GPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular4N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular4N-NSN
- noun · vocative (address) · neuter plural4N-VPN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular3N-DSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular2N-GSN
Matthew
fourteen uses
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: son
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: child
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: sons
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: Son
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Mark
nine uses
When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: Son
“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
- τέκναteknanoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Children
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: child
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: child
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Luke
fourteen uses
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: child
And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: Child
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: Son
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: Child
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
and the third married the widow, and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
John
three uses
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Acts
five uses
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
- τέκνουteknounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: a child
He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Romans
seven uses
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
1 Corinthians
three uses
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: child
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
2 Corinthians
three uses
As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: to children
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Galatians
five uses
My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
- τέκναteknanoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Children
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Ephesians
five uses
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- τέκναteknanoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Children
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Philippians
two uses
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a child
Colossians
two uses
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
- τέκναteknanoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Children
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
1 Thessalonians
two uses
On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
1 Timothy
five uses
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- τέκνῳteknonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: child
Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: child
An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
2 Timothy
two uses
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
- τέκνῳteknonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: child
You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · vocative (address) · neuter singulartagged: child
Titus
two uses
To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
- τέκνῳteknonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: child
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Philemon
one use
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
- τέκνουteknounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: child
1 Peter
two uses
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
2 Peter
one use
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
1 John
five uses
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
2 John
three uses
The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I alone, but also all who know the truth—
- τέκνοιςteknoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.
- τέκνωνteknonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: children
The children of your elect sister send you greetings.
- τέκναteknanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: children
3 John
one use
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
Revelation
three uses
Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
- τέκναteknanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: children
His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: child
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
- τέκνονteknonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: child
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.