adjective
ateknos
Strong’sG815
childless
stem atekn-2 times in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄτεκνος, -ον
(< τέκνον), [in LXX: Ge 15:2, Le 20:20, 21 (עֲרִירִי), Is 49:21, Je 18:21 (שׁכל), Si 16:3*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G815 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
without children, childless, barren, Refs 8th c.BC+; of animals and fishes, Refs 5th c.BC+adverb -νωςRefs 5th c.BC+
II in causal sense, λειχὴν ἄφυλλος ἄ.Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ateknos2×ἄτεκνος | ateknas | ateknem | ateknois | ateknais | atekneim |
| object accusative | ateknon | ateknan | ateknoin | ateknain | ||
| direct address vocative | ateknor | ateknar | ateknoir | ateknair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ateknou | ateknau | atekneu | ateknoiu | ateknaiu | atekneiu |
| to, for dative | atekno | atekna | atekne | ateknoi | ateknai | ateknei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
atekn is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ateknos“childless”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 20:28… adelfos apothnēskateia echarōntos gunaikan, kai houtos ateknos ateiō, hina labateia tos adelfos autou …… dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his …
Luke 20:29… kai tos prōtos labarantos gunaikan apothnēskata ateknos;… one married a wife but died childless.