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τέκνον
téknon · Greek · Strong's G5043 · 99 occurrences
The KJV renders 13 different Hebrew and Greek words as “child”
What it means
a child (as produced)
from the base of G5098 (τιμωρία);
How the KJV renders it
child, daughter, son
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“child”
“son”
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Where it appears
99 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 4:14 · N-NPN
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:17 · N-NSN
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
1 Corinthians 7:14 · N-NPN
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
1 John 3:1 · N-APN
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
1 John 3:2 · N-NPN
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
1 John 3:10 · N-NPN
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
1 John 5:2 N-APN1 Peter 1:14 N-NPN1 Peter 3:6 N-APN1 Thessalonians 2:7 N-APN1 Thessalonians 2:11 N-APN1 Timothy 1:2 N-DSN1 Timothy 1:18 N-VSN1 Timothy 3:4 N-APN1 Timothy 3:12 N-GPN1 Timothy 5:4 N-APN2 Corinthians 6:13 N-DPN2 Corinthians 12:14 N-DPN2 John 1:1 N-DPN2 John 1:4 N-GPN2 John 1:13 N-NPN2 Peter 2:14 N-NPN2 Timothy 1:2 N-DSN2 Timothy 2:1 N-VSN3 John 1:4 N-APNActs 2:39 N-DPNActs 7:5 N-GSNActs 13:32 N-DPNActs 21:5 N-DPNActs 21:21 N-APNColossians 3:20 N-NPNColossians 3:21 N-APNEphesians 2:3 N-NPNEphesians 5:1 N-NPNEphesians 5:8 N-NPNEphesians 6:1 N-NPNEphesians 6:4 N-APNGalatians 4:19 N-VPNGalatians 4:25 N-GPNGalatians 4:27 N-NPNGalatians 4:28 N-NPNGalatians 4:31 N-NPNJohn 1:12 N-NPNJohn 8:39 N-NPNJohn 11:52 N-APNLuke 1:7 N-NSNLuke 1:17 N-APNLuke 2:48 N-VSNLuke 3:8 N-APNLuke 7:35 N-GPNLuke 11:13 N-DPNLuke 13:34 N-APNLuke 14:26 N-APNLuke 15:31 N-VSNLuke 16:25 N-VSNLuke 18:29 N-APNLuke 19:44 N-APNLuke 20:31 N-APNLuke 23:28 N-APNMatthew 2:18 N-APN
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