verb

Greekτεκνογονέω (teknogoneō)

Biblang

teknogonamō

Strong’sG5041

I bear children

stem teknogon-once in the New Testament1 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.

*† τεκνογονέω, -ῶ

to beget or bear children: I Ti 5:14 (Anthol.).†

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

Strong’s G5041 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtek-nog-on-eh'-o

to be a child-bearer, i.e. parent (mother)

Fromfrom a compound of G5043 and the base of G1096;

King Jamesbear 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

τεκνογον-έω,
bear young, bear children, NT+1st 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.

bear children1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind it	What it is	Usually	Times
teknogonarōτεκνογονεῖν	happening now · the “to …” formpresent active infinitive	bear children	1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses

Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	was happening imperfect	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect	had happened pluperfect
I 1st person singular	teknogonamō	teknogoname	teknogonami	teknogonama	teknogonamē	teknogonamelē
you 2nd person singular	teknogonasō	teknogonase	teknogonasi	teknogonasa	teknogonasē	teknogonaselē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	teknogonatō	teknogonate	teknogonati	teknogonata	teknogonatē	teknogonatelē
we 1st person plural	teknogonanō	teknogonane	teknogonani	teknogonana	teknogonanē	teknogonanelē
ye 2nd person plural	teknogonavō	teknogonave	teknogonavi	teknogonava	teknogonavē	teknogonavelē
they 3rd person plural	teknogonalō	teknogonale	teknogonali	teknogonala	teknogonalē	teknogonalelē

May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
I 1st person singular	teknogonameiō	teknogonameia	teknogonameiē
you 2nd person singular	teknogonaseiō	teknogonaseia	teknogonaseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	teknogonateiō	teknogonateia	teknogonateiē
we 1st person plural	teknogonaneiō	teknogonaneia	teknogonaneiē
ye 2nd person plural	teknogonaveiō	teknogonaveia	teknogonaveiē
they 3rd person plural	teknogonaleiō	teknogonaleia	teknogonaleiē

Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
you 2nd person singular	teknogonasōr	teknogonasar	teknogonasēr
he/she/it 3rd person singular	teknogonatōr	teknogonatar	teknogonatēr
ye 2nd person plural	teknogonavōr	teknogonavar	teknogonavēr
they 3rd person plural	teknogonalōr	teknogonalar	teknogonalēr

Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist
I 1st person singular	teknogonamoiō	teknogonamoia
you 2nd person singular	teknogonasoiō	teknogonasoia
he/she/it 3rd person singular	teknogonatoiō	teknogonatoia
we 1st person plural	teknogonanoiō	teknogonanoia
ye 2nd person plural	teknogonavoiō	teknogonavoia
they 3rd person plural	teknogonaloiō	teknogonaloia

The “to …” form — infinitive, 1 occurrence

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	teknogonarō1×τεκνογονεῖν	teknogonari	teknogonara	teknogonarē

Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	teknogonarōntos	teknogonarintos	teknogonarantos	teknogonarēntos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them

teknogonstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

teknogon 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

teknogonarō“bear children”happening now · the “to …” formpresent active infinitive1×

1 Timothy 5:14“bear children”boulomō oun neoterain gamarō, teknogonarō, oikodespotarō, mēdenan aforman dōarō to antikeiorōnto …… advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for …