tokos

Strong’sG5110

interest, usury

stem tok-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.

τόκος, -ου, ὁ

(< τίκτω), [in LXX for נֶשֶׁךְ, etc.;]

(a) a bringing forth, birth;

(b) offspring. Metaph., of the produce of money lent out, interest, usury (cf. Merch. of Venice, I, iii, "a breed of barren metal "): Mt 25:27, Lk 19:23 (Soph., Plat., al.).†

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

Strong’s G5110 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtok'-os

interest on money loaned (as a produce)

Fromfrom the base of G5088;

King Jamesusury.

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

τόκος, ὁ,
(τίκτω) childbirth, parturition, of women, Refs 8th c.BC+; of animals, Refs 8th c.BC+
b the time of parturition, ὁ τ. τῆς γυναικός Refs 5th c.BC+; period of gestation, ἐνιαύσιος ὁ τ. Refs 4th c.BC+
c ἡ φύσις τοῦ παιδίου τοῦ ἐν τόκῳ in the foetal stage, Refs 5th c.BC+
II offspring, of men or animals, πάντων Ἀργείων ἐρέων γενεήν τε τόκον τε Refs 8th c.BC+; of an eagle, ἐλθὼν ἐξ ὄρεος, ὅθι οἱ γενεή τε τόκος τε Refs 8th c.BC+; Οἰδίπον τ. his son, Refs 4th c.BC+ (but also, daughter, θεὰ γεγῶσα καὶ θεοῦ πατρὸς τ. Refs 5th c.BC+; fry of fish, Refs 4th c.BC+; litter of pigs, πασῶν τῶν συῶν ἀπὸ τόκου χοῖρον λαμβάνειν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, produce of money lent, hence interest Refs 5th c.BC+ obols per month on the mina, Refs 4th c.BC+; τ. πεντεκαιδέκατος, i. e. 100/15 = 6 2/3%, Refs 2nd c.BC+; singular and plural, Refs 5th c.BC+; κομίζεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; λαμβάνειν ἀπό τινος Refs 5th c.BC+compound interest, Refs 5th c.BC+ plays on the double meaning of the word, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 metaphorically, interest, [γῄδιον] ὅτι λάβοι σπέρμα.. δικαίως ἀπεδίδου αὐτό τε καὶ τόκον Refs 5th c.BC+; offspring, ἢ τίκτων λόγους ἢ τὸν ἑτέρων τόκον λαμβάνων Refs 4th c.AD+; bringing forth, Refs
II.4 oppression, as translation of Hebrew τōκη, LXX

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.

interest2×

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	tokos	tokois
object accusative	tokon	tokoin
direct address vocative	tokor	tokoir
of, belonging to genitive	tokou	tokoiu
to, for dative	toko2×τόκῳ	tokoi

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

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

toko 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

toko“interest”to, fordative singular2×

Matthew 25:27… mis komizema an tem ēmem sun toko.… would have received it back with interest.

Luke 19:23… arguriem epi trapezan? kamis ercharantos sun toko an autem prassama.… I could have collected it with interest?’