2001 Translation

TEKNŌN, teknōn

Sounds Like: TEK-non

Translations: of children, children

From the root: ΤΕΚΝΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to offspring, descendants, or young ones. It is used to denote a child or children in a literal sense, or sometimes metaphorically to refer to those who are spiritually related or under someone's care. It is a common term for a son or daughter.

Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Neuter

Strong’s number: G5043 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:27, 1:45, 1:248

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 20:2

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:70

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 13:6
• 4 Maccabees — 14:12, 15:1, 15:20, 15:21, 15:24, 15:25
• Psalms — 77:4
• Proverbs — 7:7, 17:6
• Wisdom — 12:5, 13:17, 18:5
• Sirach — 3:9, 30:1, 32:22, 41:6, 42:5
• Isaiah — 51:18
• Jeremiah — 38:29, 39:18
• Mark — 7:27
• Romans — 8:21
• Galatians — 4:25
• 1 Timothy — 3:12
• 2 John — 1:4
• Epistle of Barnabas — 20:2

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 8:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 15:98, 25:199
• Book Two — 25:199

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:74, 19:315
• Book 2 — 7:188, 13:292
• Book 3 — 5:88
• Book 4 — 7:170, 8:273, 8:290
• Book 5 — 10:351
• Book 6 — 8:158, 14:336, 14:345, 14:358
• Book 7 — 1:2, 4:93, 7:149, 10:243, 10:255, 11:291
• Book 9 — 4:50, 5:100
• Book 10 — 2:26, 8:138, 11:230
• Book 11 — 4:109, 8:316
• Book 12 — 2:51, 2:55, 6:228, 6:269, 6:271, 6:272, 7:291, 8:345
• Book 13 — 3:67, 6:200, 7:221, 13:363, 15:400
• Book 14 — 5:90, 10:260, 11:269
• Book 15 — 5:145
• Book 16 — 10:331, 11:359
• Book 17 — 2:45
• Book 18 — 6:160
• Book 20 — 2:37, 4:89, 10:244

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 7:2, 9:10, 17:10, 23:5, 26:12, 28:7, 28:8, 28:12, 33:13, 34:1
• Book Two — 8:45, 10:9, 16:68
• Book Three — 6:3
• Book Four — 8:24
• Book Five — 13:4
• Book Six — 6:36
• Book Seven — 7:10, 8:131, 8:135

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:4
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 100:3, 134:4, 138:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 16:84, 41:207, 45:230, 63:328, 75:419

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 49:3
• Exodus — 10:2, 34:7
• Deuteronomy — 21:17, 22:6, 24:16, 28:55, 33:24
• 1 Samuel — 6:7
• 2 Chronicles — 25:4, 35:7
• 1 Maccabees — 13:6
• 2 Maccabees — 5:13, 15:18
• 3 Maccabees — 1:20
• 4 Maccabees — 2:12, 14:12, 14:20, 15:1, 15:8, 15:15, 15:20, 15:21, 15:24, 15:25, 15:26, 16:1, 17:7
• Psalms — 77:4, 112:9
• Proverbs — 7:7, 17:6
• Wisdom — 12:5, 13:17, 18:5
• Sirach — 3:5, 3:9, 16:1, 30:1, 35:22, 41:6, 42:5
• Isaiah — 39:7, 51:18
• Jeremiah — 19:2, 38:29, 39:18
• Baruch — 4:12
• Ezekiel — 16:36, 18:2
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:10
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:10
• Hosea — 4:6, 13:13

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 15:26
• Mark — 7:27
• Luke — 7:35
• Romans — 8:21
• Galatians — 4:25
• 1 Timothy — 3:12
• 2 John — 1:4

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 5:2

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΕΚΝΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΤΕΚΙ — of children, of a child, of offspring
• ΤΕΚΝΑ — children, offspring
• ΤΕΚΝΑʼ — children, sons, daughters
• ΤΕΚΝΙΑ — little children, dear children, children
• ΤΕΚΝΟ — child, a child, offspring, descendant
• ΤΕΚΝΟΙ — (to) children, (of) children, children
• ΤΕΚΝΟΙΣ — to children, for children, with children, by children, children
• ΤΕΚΝΟΝ — child, a child, son, a son, daughter, a daughter
• ΤΕΚΝΟΣ — child, a child, son, a son, daughter, a daughter, descendant, a descendant
• ΤΕΚΝΟΥ — (of) a child, (of) a son, (of) a daughter, (of) offspring
• ΤΕΚΝΟΥΣ — children, of children, to children
• ΤΕΚΝΩ — to a child, for a child, with a child
• ΤΚΝΟΝ — child, a child, son, a son, daughter, a daughter, offspring
• ΤΩΝΤΕΚΝΩΝ — of the children, of the child

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