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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 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

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.

The other 20 New Testament books never use the word.

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.”

    Matthew 1:21

    • 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”).

    Matthew 1:23

    • 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.

    Matthew 1:25

    • 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.”

    Matthew 2:2

    • 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.

    Luke 1:31

    • 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.

    Luke 1:57

    • τεκεῖνtekeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to give birth
  • While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.

    Luke 2:6

    • 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.

    Luke 2:7

    • 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!

    Luke 2:11

    • 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.

    John 16:21

    • 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.”

    Galatians 4:27

    • 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.

    Hebrews 6:7

    • 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.

    James 1:15

    • 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.

    Revelation 12:2

    • 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.

    Revelation 12:4

    • 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.

    Revelation 12:5

    • 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.

    Revelation 12:13

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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