Greek noun (feminine) · G5078
τέχνη
technetekh'-nay
skill
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: téchnē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5078is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5078
art (as productive), i.e. (specially), a trade, or (generally) skill
The King James renders it: art, craft, occupation.
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
techne is rendered "skill". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
Acts 17:29τέχνης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- by trade1
- craft1
- of craft1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| τεχνίτης | technites | craftsman | Uses4 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- τέχνης2
- τέχνῃ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Acts
two uses
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
- τέχνηςtechnesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of craft
and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
- τέχνῃtechnenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by trade
Revelation
one use
And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
- τέχνηςtechnesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: craft
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.