Vocabulary Form
τέκνον, -ου, τό
Definition

child, descendant

Erasmian
Modern
Root
τεκνο
Frequency
99
GK
5451
Cognates

Teknonymy is the custom of naming the parent from the child.

Mnemonics

Raising a child demands some technique.

Mnemonic Singing

Frail children of dust,
and feeble as frail

Song

Biblical Concordance

Titus 1:6 if anyone is above reproach, a man of one woman, having believing children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut), not open to the charge of debauchery or being rebellious.
Philemon 1:10 I appeal to you for my child (teknou | τέκνου | gen sg neut), Onesimus, whose father I became while in prison.
1 Peter 1:14 As children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of obedience, do not be conformed to the desires you used to have in your time of ignorance
1 Peter 3:6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him “my lord.” You are her daughters (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) if you do what is right and do not fear any intimidation.
2 Peter 2:14 They have eyes full of adultery that do not stop sinning. They seduce unstable souls and have hearts well trained in greed. Accursed brood! (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut)
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of God — and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:2 Dear friends, at the present time we are children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. But we do know that when he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
1 John 3:10 By this the children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of God and the children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of the devil are revealed: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut) of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
2 John 1:1 The elder to the elect lady and her children (teknois | τέκνοις | dat pl neut), whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all who know the truth),
2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children (teknōn | τέκνων | gen pl neut) walking in the truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.
2 John 1:13 The children (tekna | τέκνα | nom pl neut) of your elect sister send you greetings.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut) are walking in the truth.
Revelation 2:23 I will kill her children (tekna | τέκνα | acc pl neut) with a fatal disease. Then all the churches will understand that I am the one who searches minds and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works.
Revelation 12:4 His tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child (teknon | τέκνον | acc sg neut) he might devour it.
Revelation 12:5 So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule all the nations with an iron rod; but her child (teknon | τέκνον | nom sg neut) was taken up to God and to his throne.