GREEK · G21220
τεκνοφόνος
teknophonos — child-murdering
child-murdering
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Knop
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GREEK · G9411
τεκνοποιέω
teknopoieō — to produce children
in Act., of the woman, to bear children , in Mid., of the man, to beget them , (Xenophon Historicus): in Mid. of both parents, to breed children , (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
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Some architectural ornament. (1.) Heb. kaphtor (Ex. 25:31-36), occurring in the description of the candlestick. It was an ornamental swell beneath the cups of the candlestick, probably an imitation of the fruit of the almond. (2.) Heb. peka’im, found only in 1 Kings 6:18 and 7:24, an ornament resembling a small gourd or an egg, on the cedar wainscot in the temple and on the castings on the brim of the brazen sea.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.