noun · neuter
tekniem
Strong’sG5040
a little child
stem tekni-8 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 6 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.
† τεκνίον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of τέκνον),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5040 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtek-nee'-on
an infant, i.e. (plural figuratively) darlings (Christian converts)
Fromdiminutive of G5043;
King Jameslittle children.
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
= {τεκνίδιον}, NT+2nd c.AD+.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | tekniem | teknieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | teknieu | teknieiu |
| to, for dative | teknie | tekniei |
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
teknie 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
teknieim5×
John 13:33teknieim, ēti mikrem meta vu amō; zētavi …Little children, I am with you only a …
1 John 2:12Grafamō vi, teknieim, hoti afiēkolē vi tais hamartais dia …I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven …
1 John 2:28Kai nun, teknieim, menavōr en auto, hina ean faneriteia …And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when …
1 John 3:7teknieim, mēdenos planatōr vin; tos poiarōntos tan …Little children, let no one deceive you: The …
1 John 4:4vis ek tou theou avō, teknieim, kai nikavē autoin, hoti megoteros atō …You, little children, are from God and have overcome …
Teknieim3×
1 John 2:1Teknieim mu, houteim grafamō vi hina mē …My little children, I am writing these things to …
1 John 3:18Teknieim, mē agapaneiō logo mēde ta glōssa …Little children, let us love not in word …
1 John 5:21Teknieim, fulassavar heauteim apo teiu eidōleiu.Little children, keep yourselves from idols.