Greek verb · G5088
τίκτω
tiktotik'-to
to give birth to
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tíktō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5088is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5088
to produce (from seed, as a mother, a plant, the earth, etc.), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: bear, be born, bring forth, be delivered, be in travail.
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
tikto is rendered "to give birth to". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
Matthew 1:21τέξεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eighteen uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- she brought forth2
- She will bear2
- to bring forth2
- bearing1
- giving birth1
- had brought forth1
- has been born1
- having been born1
- it gives birth to1
- producing1
- she had brought forth1
- she may be giving birth1
and 3 more, 18 uses in all
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.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- ἔτεκεν4
- τεκεῖν3
- τέξεται2
- τίκτουσα2
- ἐτέχθη1
- τεκεῖν.¶1
- τέκῃ1
- τέξῃ1
- τεχθεὶς1
- τίκτει1
- τίκτῃ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)4V-2AAN
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FDI-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-2AAS-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-APP-NSM
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-FDI-2S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PAP-NSF
- verb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · feminine singular1V-PAP-VSF
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-PAS-3S
Matthew
four uses
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- τέξεταιtexetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: She will bear
“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
- τέξεταιtexetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she will bear
But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.
- ἔτεκενetekenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she had brought forth
asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
- τεχθεὶςtechtheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having been born
Luke
five uses
Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
- τέξῃtexeverb · future middle form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: will bring forth
When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child, she gave birth to a son.
- τεκεῖνtekeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give birth
While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.
- τεκεῖνtekeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: giving birth
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
- ἔτεκενetekenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she brought forth
Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
- ἐτέχθηetechtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been born
John
one use
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
- τίκτῃtikteverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: she may be giving birth
Galatians
one use
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.”
- τίκτουσαtiktousaverb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: bearing
Hebrews
one use
For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
- τίκτουσαtiktousaverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: producing
James
one use
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- τίκτειtikteiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it gives birth to
Revelation
five uses
She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.
- τεκεῖν.¶tekeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring forth
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.
- τεκεῖνtekeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring forth
- τέκῃtekeverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: she may bring forth
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.
- ἔτεκενetekenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she brought forth
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
- ἔτεκενetekenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: had brought forth
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.
