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 · τέκναA voice in Ramah was heard—lamentation and weeping and much mourning—Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.’Matthew 3:9 · τέκναand do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,Matthew 7:11 · τέκνοιςif, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?Matthew 9:2 · τέκνον,and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, ‘Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.’Matthew 10:21 · τέκνον· · τέκνα‘And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,Matthew 15:26 · τέκνωνand he answering said, ‘It is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast to the little dogs.’Matthew 18:25 · τέκναand he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.Matthew 19:29 · τέκναand every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name’s sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;Matthew 21:28 · τέκνα · τέκνον,‘And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.’Matthew 22:24 · τέκνα,‘Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.Matthew 23:37 · τέκνα‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.Matthew 27:25 · τέκναand all the people answering said, ‘His blood is upon us, and upon our children!’Mark 2:5 · τέκνον,and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, ‘Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.’Mark 7:27 · τέκνα· · τέκνωνAnd Jesus said to her, ‘Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.’Mark 10:24 · τέκνα,And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, ‘Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!Mark 10:29 · τέκναAnd Jesus answering said, ‘Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news’,Mark 10:30 · τέκναwho may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;Mark 12:19 · τέκνον‘Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one’s brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.Mark 13:12 · τέκνον, · τέκνα‘And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,Luke 1:7 · τέκνον,and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.Luke 1:17 · τέκναand he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.’Luke 2:48 · τέκνον,And, having seen him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, ‘Child, why didst thou thus to us? lo, thy father and I, sorrowing, were seeking thee.’Luke 3:8 · τέκναmake, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father—Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;Luke 7:35 · τέκνωνand the wisdom was justified from all her children.’Luke 11:13 · τέκνοιςIf, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!’Luke 13:34 · τέκνα‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.Luke 14:26 · τέκνα‘If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;Luke 15:31 · τέκνον,‘And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;Luke 16:25 · τέκνον,‘And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;Luke 18:29 · τέκναand he said to them, ‘Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,Luke 19:44 · τέκναand lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.’Luke 20:31 · τέκναand the third took her, and in like manner also the seven—they left not children, and they died;Luke 23:28 · τέκναand Jesus having turned unto them, said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;John 1:12 · τέκναbut as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God—to those believing in his name,John 8:39 · τέκναThey answered and said to him, ‘Our father is Abraham;’ Jesus saith to them, ‘If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;John 11:52 · τέκναand not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.Acts 2:39 · τέκνοιςfor to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.’Acts 7:5 · τέκνου.and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him—he having no child.Acts 13:33 · τέκνοιςGod hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee.Acts 21:5 · τέκνοιςbut when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,Acts 21:21 · τέκναand they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying—Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;Romans 8:16 · τέκναThe Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;Romans 8:17 · τέκνα,and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ—if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.Romans 8:21 · τέκνωνthat also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;Romans 9:7 · τέκνα,nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but—‘in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;’Romans 9:8 · τέκνα · τέκνα · τέκναthat is, the children of the flesh—these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;1 Corinthians 4:14 · τέκναNot as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,1 Corinthians 4:17 · τέκνονbecause of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.1 Corinthians 7:14 · τέκναfor the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.2 Corinthians 6:13 · τέκνοιςand as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged—also ye!2 Corinthians 12:14 · τέκνα · τέκνοις·Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,Galatians 4:19 · τέκναmy little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,Galatians 4:25 · τέκνωνfor this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,Galatians 4:27 · τέκναfor it hath been written, ‘Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate—more than of her having the husband.’Galatians 4:28 · τέκναAnd we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,Galatians 4:31 · τέκναthen, brethren, we are not a maid-servant’s children, but the free-woman’s.Ephesians 2:3 · τέκναamong whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,Ephesians 5:1 · τέκναBecome, then, followers of God, as children beloved,Ephesians 5:8 · τέκναfor ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,Ephesians 6:1 · τέκνα,The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;Ephesians 6:4 · τέκναAnd the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.Philippians 2:15 · τέκναthat ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,Philippians 2:22 · τέκνονand the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;Colossians 3:20 · τέκνα,the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;Colossians 3:21 · τέκναthe fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.1 Thessalonians 2:7 · τέκνα,But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,1 Thessalonians 2:11 · τέκναeven as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,1 Timothy 1:2 · τέκνῳto Timotheus—genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,1 Timothy 1:18 · τέκνονThis charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,1 Timothy 3:4 · τέκναhis own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,1 Timothy 3:12 · τέκνωνMinistrants—let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,1 Timothy 5:4 · τέκναand if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.2 Timothy 1:2 · τέκνῳ·to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!2 Timothy 2:1 · τέκνονThou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,Titus 1:4 · τέκνῳto Titus—true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!Titus 1:6 · τέκναif any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—Philemon 1:10 · τέκνουI entreat thee concerning my child—whom I did beget in my bonds—Onesimus,1 Peter 1:14 · τέκναas obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,1 Peter 3:6 · τέκναas Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him ‘sir,’ of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.2 Peter 2:14 · τέκνα.having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,1 John 3:1 · τέκναSee ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;1 John 3:2 · τέκναbeloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;1 John 3:10 · τέκνα · τέκναIn this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,1 John 5:2 · τέκναin this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;2 John 1:1 · τέκνοιςThe Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,2 John 1:4 · τέκνωνI rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;2 John 1:13 · τέκναsalute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.3 John 1:4 · τέκναgreater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.Revelation 2:23 · τέκναand her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you—to each—according to your works.Revelation 12:4 · τέκνονand his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;Revelation 12:5 · τέκνονand she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,