tektonos

Strong’sG5045

a carpenter

stem tekton-2 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.

τέκτων, -ονος, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for חָרָשׁ;]

an artificer in wood, stone or metal, but esp. a carpenter (v. MM, xxiv): Mt 13:55, Mk 6:3.†

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

Strong’s G5045 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtek'-tone

an artificer (as producer of fabrics), i.e. (specially), a craftsman in wood

Fromfrom the base of G5098;

King Jamescarpenter.

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

τέκτων, ονος, ὁ
(feminine in Refs 5th c.BC+, worker in wood, carpenter, joiner, τέκτονες ἄνδρες, οἵ οἱ ἐποίησαν θάλαμον καὶ δῶμα καὶ αὐλήν Refs 8th c.BC+; νηῶν, δούρων τ., Refs 8th c.BC+: it is frequently opposed to to a smith (χαλκεύς), Refs 5th c.BC+; to a mason (λιθολόγος), Refs 5th c.BC+ —but also,
2 generally, any craftsman or workman, κεραοξόος τ. a worker in horn, Refs 8th c.BC+; rarely of metal-workers, Refs 5th c.BC+; sculptor, statuary, Refs
3 master in any art, as in gymnastics, Refs 5th c.BC+; of poets, τέκτονες σοφοὶ (i.e. ἐπέων) Refs 5th c.BC+; τέκτονες κώμων, i.e. the χορευταί, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. νωδυνίας, i.e. a physician, Refs; δεξιᾶς χερὸς ἔργον, δικαίας τέκτονος a true workman, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 metaphorically, maker, author, νεικέων Refs; κακῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; γένους the author of a race, Refs 4th c.BC+; ψευδῶν τ. Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit ták[snull]an- 'carpenter', ták[snull]ati, tā[snull][tnull]i 'form by cutting, plane, chisel, chop', Lett. test, tēst 'hew, plane', etc.: compare τέχνη.)

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.

carpenter1×carpenter’s1×

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	tektonos1×τέκτων	tektonois
object accusative	tektonon	tektonoin
direct address vocative	tektonor	tektonoir
of, belonging to genitive	tektonou1×τέκτονος	tektonoiu
to, for dative	tektono	tektonoi

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

tektonstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

tektono 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

tektonos“carpenter”subjectnominative singular1×

Mark 6:3ouk houtos atō tos tektonos, tos huios tau Mariau kai adelfos …Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the …

tektonou“carpenter’s”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Matthew 13:55ouk houtos atō tos tou tektonou huios? ouk tas mētēras autou legotō …“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary …