τέκνον teknon

Greek word for “child” · Strong’s G5043 · used 99 times in 91 verses

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Meaning

τέκνον, -ου, τό; (τίκτω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for teknon in context, with how often each is used:

• children 75
• child 16
• son 4
• sons 1
• my child 1
• their children 1
• children! 1

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Galatians 4 (5), Mark 10 (3), Romans 8 (3), 1 John 3 (3), 2 John 1 (3), Luke 1 (2), Acts 21 (2), Romans 9 (2), 1 Corinthians 4 (2), Ephesians 5 (2)

Forms

• τέκνα 63
• τέκνον 16
• τέκνοις 8
• τέκνων 7
• τέκνῳ 3
• τέκνου 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with teknon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πατήρ patēr “father” 21
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 13
• γυνή gunē “woman” 10
• γονεύς goneus “parent” 6
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 12
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 8
• ἀδελφή adelphē “sister” 5
• Ἀβραάμ Abraam “Abraham” 6
• λαμβάνω lambanō “to take” 8
• σπέρμα sperma “seed” 5
• ἀγαπητός agapētos “beloved” 5
• νῦν nun “now” 6

Key verses

The verses using teknon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 3:9 — And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Matthew 23:37 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even…
• Luke 13:34 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen…
• Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
• Romans 8:17 — And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
• Ephesians 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature…
• Ephesians 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Philippians 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the…
• 2 Peter 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• 1 John 3:1 — Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him…
• 1 John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall…
• Revelation 2:23 — And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.