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
- Search:
- 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.