Strong's Greek · G5043

τέκνον

téknon

child, daughter, son

Definition

a child (as produced)

Derivation

from the base of G5098 (τιμωρία);

Appears 99 times in Scripture

Matthew 9:2

Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 2:18

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Matthew 7:11

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 21:28

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Mark 7:27

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Matthew 15:26

But Jesus replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Matthew 18:25

Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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