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τέκνον

child

G5043 Strong's Greek
téknon Transliteration
/tek'-non/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 99 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“child” is the headline sense of the Greek noun τεκνον (téknon). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:18. It turns up in 91 verses across 23 books, a moderately common footprint. It clusters with τιμωρια, τεκτων and τεκνιον under a shared root. See the sense tree, 91-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
child
Modern gloss
child
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G5043 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

91
distinct verses
The word appears in 91 distinct verses.
23 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:18
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:18.
Revelation 12:5
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 12:5.
#171
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 171 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 91 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 36 · 40%
  • Acts 5 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 36 · 40%
  • General Epistles 11 · 12%
  • Revelation 3 · 3%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 91 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 36 verses · 40%
  • Pauline corpus 36 verses · 40%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 19 verses · 21%
  • Johannine 14 verses · 15%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 11 verses · 12%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 3%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Children 69×, Son 15×, Sons 6×
  • American Standard Version: Children 70×, Child 15×, Son 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Children 74×, Child 15×, Son 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Children 79×, Child 20×, To 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5043 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Children” 69×
  • “Son” 15×
  • “Sons” 6×
  • “Child” 5×
  • “Children's” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5043 across 102 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Children” 70×
  • “Child” 15×
  • “Son” 6×
  • “Own children” 2×
  • “Sons” 2×
  • “Unto” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5043 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Children” 74×
  • “Child” 15×
  • “Son” 4×
  • “Children together” 2×
  • “Children’s” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5043 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Children” 79×
  • “Child” 20×
  • “To” 3×
  • “A” 2×
  • “For” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. offspring, children

Word origin

Derived from τιμωρια (timōría) (G5098) — vengeance.

Part of speech: Noun Neuter TDNT: 15:36,8

From the base of G5098 ; a child (as produced ): - child daughter son.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G5043 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
τέκνα tékna Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 2:18 63
τέκνον téknon Noun, Vocative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 9:2 16
τέκνοις téknois Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 7:11 8
τέκνων téknōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter Matthew 15:26 7
τέκνῳ téknō Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter 1 Timothy 1:2 3
τέκνου téknou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Acts 7:5 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5043, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word τεκνον appears 170 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 150 verses in 24 books.

170
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
150
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
24 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5043) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 150. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5043) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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