adjective

filoteknas

Greekφιλότεκνος (filoteknos)

Strong’sG5388

loving one's children

stem filotekn-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

love their children1×

What it means

** φιλότεκνος, -ον

(< φίλος, τέκνον), [in LXX: IV Mac 15:4-6 *;]

loving one's children (Hdt., Arist., Plut., al.): of women, joined with φίλανδρος, q.v., Tit 2:4.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5388 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-ot'-ek-nos

fond of one's children, i.e. maternal

Fromfrom G5384 and G5043;

King Jameslove their children.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	filoteknos	filoteknas	filoteknem	filoteknois	filoteknais	filotekneim
object accusative	filoteknon	filoteknan		filoteknoin	filoteknain1×φιλοτέκνους
direct address vocative	filoteknor	filoteknar		filoteknoir	filoteknair
of, belonging to genitive	filoteknou	filoteknau	filotekneu	filoteknoiu	filoteknaiu	filotekneiu
to, for dative	filotekno	filotekna	filotekne	filoteknoi	filoteknai	filoteknei

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

filoteknstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filotekn 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

filoteknain“love their children”objectaccusative plural1×

Titus 2:4“love their children”hina sōfronizaleiō tain neain filandrain arō, filoteknain,In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,