τεκνίον
tekníon · G5040 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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my child, my dear friend, my dear man, my dear one, my dear lad
(Extension of meaning of τέκνον ‘child, offspring,’) A person of any age for whom there is a special relationship of endearment and association
ExamplesJohn 13:33 “Little children, I am still with you a little longer. You will look for Me; and just as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
1 John 2:12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- παιδίον paidíon · G3813 · child, offspring
- τεκνίον is a diminutive used almost exclusively as an affectionate, vocative term of address, for disciples or spiritual children, while παιδίον is the broader, more literal term for a young child. The two overlap in their shared capacity for affectionate reference, with τεκνίον specialized for that vocative use and παιδίον covering children generally.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- My child, my dear friend, my dear man, my dear one, my dear lad9.46
- John writes to his readers, “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin” (1 John 2:1).
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τεκνιου, τό (diminutive of τέκνον, which see; (on the accent, cf. Winers Grammar, 52;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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