G5040 – teknion – τεκνίον a dear little/young child

Strong’s ID:
G5040
Greek Word:
τεκνίον
Transliteration:
teknion
Pronunciation:
tek-nee’-on
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Comparables:
G3813, a little/young child
Usage Count:
9
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Find “teknion” in the Bible (New Testament)

Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

a dear little/young child (i.e., one’s own child)

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

diminutive of G5043; an infant, i.e. (plural figuratively) darlings (Christian converts):—little children.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a little child
2) in the NT used as a term of kindly address by teachers to their disciples

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.