τεκνοποιέω
beget children
Where this word appears
Every passage where τεκνοποιέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:30 τεκνοποιέω And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
- Genesis 16:2 τεκνοποιέω And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sara.
- Genesis 30:3 τεκνοποιέω And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Balla, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.
- Isaiah 65:23 τεκνοποιέω My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.
- Jeremiah 12:2 τεκνοποιέω You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; you are near to their mouth, and far from their reins.
- Jeremiah 36:6 τεκνοποιέω and take you⌃ wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.
- Jeremiah 38:8 τεκνοποιέω Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.
About this word
About this word
τεκνοποιέω (teknopoiéō), “beget children,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →