2001 Translation

TECHNĒ, technē

Sounds Like: TEKH-nay

Translations: art, skill, craft, trade, a craft, a skill

From the root: ΤΕΧΝΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to an art, skill, or craft, often implying a practical ability or a specific trade. It can describe human ingenuity or the method by which something is made or done. It is used to denote a particular profession or a specialized knowledge.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5078 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:28

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:1, 4:5, 4:8, 4:60, 4:66, 4:67, 4:68, 4:86

Codex Sinaiticus

• Wisdom — 14:19
• Acts of the Apostles — 18:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 23:191
• Book Two — 23:191

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 8:197
• Book 4 — 2:17
• Book 6 — 14:340
• Book 12 — 2:77
• Book 15 — 9:306

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 26:2
• Book Two — 13:8
• Book Four — 3:34
• Book Seven — 5:39, 5:51

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 30:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 29:2, 58:1, 85:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 30:25
• Wisdom — 14:19
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:17

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 18:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΚΑΙΤΕΧΝΗΝ — and art, and skill, and craft, and trade, and a skill, and an art
• ΤΕΧΝΑΙ — arts, skills, crafts, trades, methods, devices
• ΤΕΧΝΑΙΣ — (to) arts, (to) skills, (to) crafts, (by) arts, (by) skills, (by) crafts, (with) arts, (with) skills, (with) crafts
• ΤΕΧΝΑΣ — arts, skills, crafts, trades, works, a work, an art, a skill, a craft, a trade
• ΤΕΧΝΗΝ — art, a skill, skill, a craft, craft, a trade, trade
• ΤΕΧΝΗΣ — (of) art, (of) skill, (of) craft, (of) trade, (of) a skill, (of) an art
• ΤΕΧΝΙΚΟΣ — skillful, expert, artistic, technical
• ΤΕΧΝΙΚΩΤΑΤΑΣ — most skillful, most artful, most cunning, most ingenious
• ΤΕΧΝΙΤΕΥΜΑ — work of art, a work of art, craftsmanship, something made by skill, a skillful work
• ΤΕΧΝΩΝ — of arts, of skills, of crafts, of trades, of works

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