τέκνον
child
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5043 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 4:14 τέκνα n acc pl neut I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
- 1 Corinthians 4:17 τέκνον n nom sg neut Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 7:14 τέκνα n nom pl neut For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy.
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
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.
- #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 →
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- offspring, children
Word origin
Derived from τιμωρια (timōría) (G5098) — vengeance.
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
- τεκνιον tekníon G5040 little child
- τεκνογονεω teknogonéō G5041 to bear children
- τεκνοτροφεω teknotrophéō G5044 to raise children
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
- Genesis 3:16 τέκνον
- Exodus 10:2 τέκνον
- Leviticus 25:41 τέκνον
- Numbers 14:18 τέκνον
- Deuteronomy 2:34 τέκνον
- Joshua 14:9 τέκνον
- Judges 18:21 τέκνον
- 1 Samuel 1:8 τέκνον
- 1 Kings 8:25 τέκνον
- 1 Chronicles 2:30 τέκνον
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 τέκνον
- Ezra 8:21 τέκνον
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.
- Genesis 3:16 τέκνον To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 17:16 τέκνον I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
- Genesis 22:7 τέκνον Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
- Genesis 22:8 τέκνον Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
- Genesis 27:13 τέκνον His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 27:18 τέκνον He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:20 τέκνον Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Genesis 27:21 τέκνον Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 27:25 τέκνον He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
- Genesis 27:26 τέκνον His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
- Genesis 27:37 τέκνον Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:43 τέκνον Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Genesis 30:1 τέκνον When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
- Genesis 31:16 τέκνον For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
- Genesis 31:43 τέκνον Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 32:12 τέκνον You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
- Genesis 33:6 τέκνον Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 33:7 τέκνον Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 43:29 τέκνον He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
- Genesis 48:19 τέκνον His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
- Genesis 49:3 τέκνον "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
- Exodus 10:2 τέκνον and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
- Exodus 17:3 τέκνον The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
- Exodus 20:5 τέκνον you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 34:7 τέκνον keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Leviticus 25:41 τέκνον then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
- Leviticus 25:46 τέκνον You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
- Numbers 14:18 τέκνον Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Numbers 14:23 τέκνον surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
- Numbers 16:27 τέκνον So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Deuteronomy 2:34 τέκνον We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
- Deuteronomy 3:19 τέκνον But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
- Deuteronomy 5:9 τέκνον you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Deuteronomy 11:19 τέκνον You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 21:17 τέκνον but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
- Deuteronomy 22:6 τέκνον If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
- Deuteronomy 24:16 τέκνον The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 τέκνον The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 28:55 τέκνον so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 τέκνον and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 τέκνον and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 32:5 τέκνον They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
- Deuteronomy 33:24 τέκνον Of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable to his brothers, Let him dip his foot in oil.
- Joshua 14:9 τέκνον Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Joshua 22:24 τέκνον and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
- Joshua 22:27 τέκνον but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.
- Judges 18:21 τέκνον So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.
- 1 Samuel 1:8 τέκνον Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
- 1 Samuel 2:5 τέκνον Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread; Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yes, the barren has borne seven; She who has many children languishes.
- 1 Samuel 2:24 τέκνον No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.
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.
