τέκτων
carpenter
also: joiner, builder fuller range ↓
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G5045 appears in the Genitive case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
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.
τεκτων — transliterated téktōn — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “carpenter.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 13:55, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses; alongside “carpenter” it spans “joiner” and “builder”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5045 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
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: Carpenter 1×, Carpenter's 1×
- American Standard Version: Carpenter 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carpenter 1×, Carpenter’s 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Carpenter 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5045 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5045 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5045 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5045 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses 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.
- a worker in wood, a carpenter, joiner, builder
- any craftsman, or workman
- a planner, contriver, plotter
Word origin
Derived from τιμωρια (timōría) (G5098) — vengeance.
From the base of G5098 ; an artificer (as producer of fabrics) that is (specifically) a craftsman in wood : - carpenter.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5045 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τέκτονος téktonos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:55 | 1 |
| τέκτων téktōn | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 6:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5045, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τεκτων appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 12 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 13:19 τέκτων
- 2 Samuel 5:11 τέκτων
- 1 Kings 7:2 τέκτων
- 2 Kings 12:12 τέκτων
- 1 Chronicles 4:14 τέκτων
- 2 Chronicles 24:12 τέκτων
- Ezra 3:7 τέκτων
- Proverbs 14:22 τέκτων
- Isaiah 40:19 τέκτων
- Jeremiah 10:3 τέκτων
- Hosea 8:6 τέκτων
- Zechariah 2:3 τέκτων
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5045) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 13:19 τέκτων Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
- 2 Samuel 5:11 τέκτων Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
- 1 Kings 7:2 τέκτων For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
- 2 Kings 12:12 τέκτων and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
- 2 Kings 22:6 τέκτων to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 2 Kings 24:14 τέκτων He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 24:16 τέκτων All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
- 1 Chronicles 4:14 τέκτων Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
- 1 Chronicles 14:1 τέκτων Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15 τέκτων There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
- 2 Chronicles 24:12 τέκτων The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 τέκτων even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
- Ezra 3:7 τέκτων They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
- Proverbs 14:22 τέκτων Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
- Isaiah 40:19 τέκτων The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
- Isaiah 40:20 τέκτων He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
- Isaiah 41:7 τέκτων So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
- Isaiah 44:12 τέκτων The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
- Isaiah 44:13 τέκτων The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
- Jeremiah 10:3 τέκτων For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
- Hosea 8:6 τέκτων For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
- Hosea 13:2 τέκτων Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."
- Zechariah 2:3 τέκτων Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5045) 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.
