Child
τέκνονStrong’s G5043teknon
Appears in 91 verses of the New Testament
In short
Teknon is the Greek word usually translated “children”, “child” and “son”. It appears in 91 verses of the New Testament.
“Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Meaning
Usually translated “children”, “child” and “son”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- children 76
- child 15
- son 4
- a child 2
- sons 1
- to children 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 14
- Matthew 12
- Mark 7
- Acts 5
- Romans 5
- Galatians 5
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 1:18In contextThis charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
- 1 Timothy 3:4In contextOne that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
- 1 Timothy 3:12In contextLet the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- 1 Timothy 5:4In contextBut if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
- Titus 1:4In contextTo Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
- Titus 1:6In contextIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
All 91 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
τέκνον teknon · child
τέκνον, -ου, τό (τίκτω), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן, also for יֶלֶד, etc. ;] that which is begotten, born (cf. Scottish bairn), a child of either sex: Mrk.13:12, Luk.1:7, Act.7:5; pl., Mat.7:11, Mrk.7:27, Luk.1:17, Eph.6:1, al.; τέκνα ἐπαγγελίας, Rom.9:8; τ. τῆς σαρκός, ib.; in a wider sense (as Heb. בָּנִים), of posterity, Mat.2:18, Luk.3:8, al.; specif., of a male child, Mat.21:28, Act.21:21, a,l.; in voc. as a form of kindly address from an elder to a junior or from a teacher to a disciple, Mat.9:2 21:28, Mrk.2:5, Luk.2:48; τ. μου (= cl. τ. μοι; see Bl., §37, 5), Gal.4:19 (τεκνία, WH, txt.) …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “child” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHILD, noun
- A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young.“Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs” Genesis 21:15“Jephthas daughter was his only child” Judges 11:34“The child shall behave himself proudly” Isaiah 3:5
- One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child“Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child” Jeremiah 1:6
- One young in grace. 1
- One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.
All definitions and other forms of “child”
- One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another.“Thou child of the devil” Acts 13:10
- In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
- The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir.
CHILD, verb intransitive
To bring children.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.