technas

Strong’sG5078

art, skill, trade

stem techn-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.

τέχνη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX for חׇכְמָה, מַעֲשֶׂה, עֲבֹדָה;]

art, craft, trade: Ac 17:29 18:3, Re 18:22 (WH, R, mg., om.).†

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

Strong’s G5078 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtekh'-nay

art (as productive), i.e. (specially), a trade, or (generally) skill

Fromfrom the base of G5088;

King Jamesart, craft, occupation.

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

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

τέχν-η, ἡ,
(τέκτων) art, skill, cunning of hand, especially in metalworking, Refs 8th c.BC+; also of a shipwright, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a soothsayer, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 craft, cunning, in bad sense, δολίη τ. Refs 8th c.BC+: plural, arts, wiles, Refs 8th c.BC+; τέχναις τινός by his arts (or simply by his agency), Refs; τέχνην κακὴν ἔχει he has a bad trick, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 way, manner, or means whereby a thing is gained, without any definite sense of art or craft, μηδεμιῇ τ. in no wise, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰθέῃ τ. straightway, Refs; πάσῃ τ. by all means, Refs 5th c.BC+; παντοίᾳ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II an art, craft, πᾶσαι τέχναι βροτοῖσιν ἐκ Προμηθέως Refs 4th c.BC+; τὴν τ. ἐπίστασθαι to know the craft, Refs 5th c.BC+; ταύτην τέχνην ἔχει he makes this his trade, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τῇ τ. εἶναι practise it, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τέχνῃ μαθεῖν τι to learn a thing professionally, opposed to ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ, Refs 5th c.BC+; τέχνην τὸ πρᾶγμα πεποιημένοι having made a trade of it, Refs 4th c.BC+; τέχνας ἀσκεῖν, μελετᾶν, ἐργάζεσθαι, to practise them,Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰατρὸς τὴν τ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; τεθεραπευκὼς ἀνεγκλήτως τῇ τ., of a barber, Refs 3rd c.BC+; παραμενῶ πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν τῆς τ. (i.e. weaving) Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἀπὸ τεχνῶν τρέφεσθαι live by them, Refs 5th c.BC+
III an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ τοὺς λόγους τ. the Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ τὰς τ. τῶν λόγων συντιθέντες systems of rhetoric, Refs 5th c.BC+; hence title of various treatises on Rhetoric (see. VI; but rather tricks of Rhetoric, in Refs 4th c.BC+; τέχνῃ by rules of art, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄνευ τέχνης, μετὰ τέχνης, Refs: τ. defined as ἕξις ὁδοποιητική, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV ={τέχνημα}, work of art, handiwork, κρατῆρες.., ἀνδρὸς εὔχειρος τέχνη Refs 5th c.BC+
V ={συντεχνία, ἡ τ. τῶν λιθουργῶν, τῶν σακκοφόρων}, Dumont-Homolle “Mélanges d' archéol. et d' épigr.” Refs; τοὺς καταλειπομένους ἀπὸ τῇς τ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὁ χαλκεὺς ἀπὸ τῆς τ. Refs
VI treatise on Grammar, Refs 2nd 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.

trade2×art1×

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	technas	technais
object accusative	technan	technain
direct address vocative	technar	technair
of, belonging to genitive	technau2×τέχνης	technaiu
to, for dative	techna1×τέχνῃ	technai

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

technstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

techna 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

technau“art”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Acts 17:29“art”… chruso ē arguro ē litho, charagme technau kai enthumēsiau anthrōpou, tem theiem arō …… think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

Revelation 18:22… si ēti, kai pantos technitos pantau technau ouk mē heuriskiteia en si ēti, …… Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor …

techna“trade”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 18:3… kai ergazote, ale gar skēnopoiois ta techna.… them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.