2001 Translation

TECHNĒS, technēs

Sounds Like: TEKH-nays

Translations: (of) art, (of) skill, (of) craft, (of) trade, (of) a skill, (of) an art

From the root: ΤΕΧΝΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to human skill, craft, or art, often implying a practical ability or a trade. It can also denote the product of such skill. It is used to describe the ability to create or perform something, distinguishing human ingenuity from natural or divine processes.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5078 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:70, 1:74

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:32, 4:60, 4:63, 4:65

Codex Sinaiticus

• Wisdom — 13:10, 14:4, 17:7
• Sirach — 38:34
• Acts of the Apostles — 17:29

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 28:255

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 13:286
• Book 3 — 12:289
• Book 4 — 3:47
• Book 12 — 2:75
• Book 15 — 11:395

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 9:1, 26:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 54:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 28:11
• 1 Kings — 7:2
• Wisdom — 13:10, 14:4, 17:7
• Sirach — 38:34

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 17:29
• Revelation — 18:22

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
• ΤΕΧΝΗ — art, skill, craft, trade, a craft, a skill
• ΤΕΧΝΗΝ — art, a skill, skill, a craft, craft, a trade, trade
• 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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