τέκνον, -ου, τό (τίκτω), [in LXX chiefly for בֵּן, also for יֶלֶד, etc. ;] that which is begotten, born (cf. Scottish bairn), a child of either sex: Mrk.13:12, Luk.1:7, Act.7:5; pl., Mat.7:11, Mrk.7:27, Luk.1:17, Eph.6:1, al.; τέκνα ἐπαγγελίας, Rom.9:8; τ. τῆς σαρκός, ib.; in a wider sense (as Heb. בָּנִים), of posterity, Mat.2:18, Luk.3:8, al.; specif., of a male child, Mat.21:28, Act.21:21, a,l.; in voc. as a form of kindly address from an elder to a junior or from a teacher to a disciple, Mat.9:2 21:28, Mrk.2:5, Luk.2:48; τ. μου (= cl. τ. μοι; see Bl., §37, 5), Gal.4:19 (τεκνία, WH, txt.), 2Ti.2:1. Metaphorical, (a) of disciples (apart from direct address, see supr.): Phm 10, 1Ti.1:2, Tit.1:4, 3Jo.4; (b) with reference to the Fatherhood of God (see: πατήρ, γεννάω), τέκνα τ. θεοῦ (cf. Isa.30:1, Wis.16:21): Rom.8:16, Eph.5:1, Php.2:15; and esp. in Johannine bks. (cf. Westc, Epp. Jo., 94, 120), Jhn.1:12, 1Jn.3:1 al.; (with) of those who imitate others and are therefore regarded as the spiritual offspring of their exemplars: Mat.3:9, Luk.3:8, Jhn.8:39, Rom.9:7, 1Pe.3:6; τ. διαβόλου, 1Jn.3:10; (d) as in Heb. (LXX, Jol.2:23, Psa.149:2, 1Ma.1:38), of the inhabitants of a city: Mat.23:37, Luk.13:34 19:44, Gal.4:25; (e) with an adjectival genitive, frequently rendering a Heb. expression, adopted from LXX or formed on the analogy of its language, but sometimes with parallels in Gk. writers (see Deiss., BS, 161ff.): τέκνα φωτός, Eph.5:8; τ. ὑπακοῆς, 1Pe.1:14; κατάρας, 2Pe.2:14; ὀργῆς, Eph.2:3. SYN.: see: παῖς. (AS)
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G5043 — τέκνον
teknon · child · Greek
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Matthew 2:18 · τέκνα“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”Matthew 3:9 · τέκναDon’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.Matthew 7:11 · τέκνοιςIf you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!Matthew 9:2 · τέκνον,Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”Matthew 10:21 · τέκνον· · τέκνα“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.Matthew 15:26 · τέκνωνBut he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”Matthew 18:25 · τέκναBut because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.Matthew 19:29 · τέκναEveryone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.Matthew 21:28 · τέκνα · τέκνον,But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’Matthew 22:24 · τέκνα,saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’Matthew 23:37 · τέκνα“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!Matthew 27:25 · τέκναAll the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”Mark 2:5 · τέκνον,Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”Mark 7:27 · τέκνα· · τέκνωνBut Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”Mark 10:24 · τέκνα,The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!Mark 10:29 · τέκναJesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,Mark 10:30 · τέκναbut he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.Mark 12:19 · τέκνον“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’Mark 13:12 · τέκνον, · τέκνα“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.Luke 1:7 · τέκνον,But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.Luke 1:17 · τέκναHe will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”Luke 2:48 · τέκνον,When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”Luke 3:8 · τέκναBring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!Luke 7:35 · τέκνωνWisdom is justified by all her children.”Luke 11:13 · τέκνοιςIf you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”Luke 13:34 · τέκνα“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!Luke 14:26 · τέκνα“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Luke 15:31 · τέκνον,“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.Luke 16:25 · τέκνον,“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.Luke 18:29 · τέκναHe said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake,Luke 19:44 · τέκναand will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”Luke 20:31 · τέκναThe third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.Luke 23:28 · τέκναBut Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.John 1:12 · τέκναBut as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:John 8:39 · τέκναThey answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.John 11:52 · τέκναand not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.Acts 2:39 · τέκνοιςFor the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”Acts 7:5 · τέκνου.He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.Acts 13:33 · τέκνοιςthat God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’Acts 21:5 · τέκνοιςWhen it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.Acts 21:21 · τέκναThey have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.Romans 8:16 · τέκναThe Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;Romans 8:17 · τέκνα,and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.Romans 8:21 · τέκνωνthat the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.Romans 9:7 · τέκνα,Neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children. But, “In Isaac will your seed be called.”Romans 9:8 · τέκνα · τέκνα · τέκναThat is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.1 Corinthians 4:14 · τέκναI don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.1 Corinthians 4:17 · τέκνονBecause 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 · τέκναFor 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 they are holy.2 Corinthians 6:13 · τέκνοιςNow in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.2 Corinthians 12:14 · τέκνα · τέκνοις·Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.Galatians 4:19 · τέκναMy little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—Galatians 4:25 · τέκνωνFor this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.Galatians 4:27 · τέκναFor it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break forth and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”Galatians 4:28 · τέκναNow we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.Galatians 4:31 · τέκναSo then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.Ephesians 2:3 · τέκναamong whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.Ephesians 5:1 · τέκναBe therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.Ephesians 5:8 · τέκναFor you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,Ephesians 6:1 · τέκνα,Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.Ephesians 6:4 · τέκναYou fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.Philippians 2:15 · τέκναthat you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,Philippians 2:22 · τέκνονBut you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.Colossians 3:20 · τέκνα,Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.Colossians 3:21 · τέκναFathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.1 Thessalonians 2:7 · τέκνα,But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.1 Thessalonians 2:11 · τέκναAs you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,1 Timothy 1:2 · τέκνῳto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.1 Timothy 1:18 · τέκνονThis instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;1 Timothy 3:4 · τέκναone who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;1 Timothy 3:12 · τέκνωνLet servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.1 Timothy 5:4 · τέκναBut if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.2 Timothy 1:2 · τέκνῳ·to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.2 Timothy 2:1 · τέκνονYou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.Titus 1:4 · τέκνῳto Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.Titus 1:6 · τέκναif anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.Philemon 1:10 · τέκνουI beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,1 Peter 1:14 · τέκναas children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,1 Peter 3:6 · τέκναas Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.2 Peter 2:14 · τέκνα.having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;1 John 3:1 · τέκναBehold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.1 John 3:2 · τέκναBeloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.1 John 3:10 · τέκνα · τέκναIn this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.1 John 5:2 · τέκναBy this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.2 John 1:1 · τέκνοιςThe elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;2 John 1:4 · τέκνωνI rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.2 John 1:13 · τέκναThe children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.3 John 1:4 · τέκναI have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.Revelation 2:23 · τέκναI will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.Revelation 12:4 · τέκνονHis tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.Revelation 12:5 · τέκνονShe gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.