Strong's G1549: ἔκγονον (ékgonon) Meaning

Quick Definition

ἔκγονος, ον Adj descended, a descendant

Strong's Definition

a descendant, i.e. (specially) grandchild

Derivation: neuter of a derivative of a compound of G1537 (ἐκ) and G1096 (γίνομαι);

KJV Usage: nephew

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἔκγονος (G1549) — ἔκγονον

adjc. | -ον | γίνομαι

10.48 · Kinship Terms · Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations

grandchild the offspring of one’s children In the one passage in which ἔκγονος occurs in the NT (namely, 1TI 5:4), the reference is to adult grandchildren, and in some languages this element in the meaning must be made explicit. In languages in which there is no generic term to include both ‘grandsons’ and ‘granddaughters,’ it may be necessary to translate ἔκγονος in 1TI 5:4 as ‘grandsons or granddaughters.’

1TI 5:4

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἔκ-γονος, -ον, (ἐκγίνομαι), sprung from one, born, begotten. (Hom. and sqq-); commonly as a subst. 6, ἡ ἔκγονυς, οἱ ἔκγονοι, a son, daughter, offspring, children, descendants ; in Sept. com. in neut. plur. ἔκγονα and ra ἔκγονα, for 178, Deut. vii. 13 [Alex.]; xxviii. 4, ete.; ONsNy, Is. xlviii. 19; lxi. 9; 13» Is. xlix. 15; also in Sir. xl. 15; xliv. 11, ete. In the N. T. once: 1 Tim. v. 4 τέκνα ἢ ἔκγονα, grandchildren, [(A. V. renders it by the obsol. nephews; ef. Eastwood and Wright, Bible Word-Book, or B.D. Am. ed. s. v. Nephew) ].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἔκγονος ekgonos 1x

born of, descended from; as a noun ἔκγονα, descendants, grandchildren, 1 Tim. 5:4*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἔκ-γονος, -ον

(< ἐκγίγνομαι, to be born of), [in LXX for פְּרִי (neut.), בֵּן, etc. ;]

c. gen., born of.

As subst., ὁ, ἡ ἔ., a child, son or daughter; in pl., descendants: τέκνα ἢ ἔ., children or grand-children, I Ti 5:4.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἔκγονος (~ ἔκγονον ) [page 192] In OGIS 90 .3 (Rosetta stone B.C. 196) ἐκγόνου θεῶν Φιλοπατόρων , Dittenberger renders ἐ . by filii , and compares the restoration in ib. 91 .2 , but Wilcken ( Archiv iii. p. 321) does not think ἐ . suitable in a pure Greek inscr. and prefers τοῦ ἐ [κ βασιλέως ] Πτολ . κτλ . In ib. 197 .8 Wilcken ( l.c. ) renders ἔκγονον by Urenkel, great-grandchild : cf. 1Ti_5:4 where AV renders nephews = grandchildren, according to the original, but now antiquated, sense of the word. The plur. is common in the general sense of descendants, e.g. P Lille I. 4 .27 (B.C. 218 7) ὧι ὑπῆρχεν αὐτῶι ἡ γῆ καὶ ἐκγόνοις , CPR I. 1 .4 (A.D. 83 4), P Oxy IX. 1200 .25 (A.D. 266) κρατεῖν σε καὶ κυριεύειν σὺν ἐκγόνοις καὶ τοῖς παρὰ σοῦ μεταλημψομένοις τοῦ προκειμένου ψειλοῦ τόπου , and so ib. 1208 .17 (A.D. 291). Down to about B.C. 300 the form ἔγγονος is found in Attic inscrr. : see Meisterhans Gr. p. 107 and cf. Mayser Gr. p. 228. Εγγονος survives in MGr = grandchild.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἔκγονος (ekgonos) — descendant. ἔκγονος, ον (η, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+], Doric dialect, [Refs 4th c.BC+], etc.:— born of, sprung from, especially substantive, child, whether son or daughter, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (anapaest meter): plural, ἔκγονοι descendants, [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; ἐκγόνων ἔκγονοι children's children, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of interest as the child of the principal, [Refs] __b grandchild, [Refs]

2. neuter, ἔκγονά τινος one's offspring, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ποιηταὶ] ἔ. ἑαυτῶν καταλείπουσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare ἔγγονος.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἔκ-γονος, -ον (ἐκγίγνομαι, to be born of), [in LXX for פְּרִי (neut.), בֵּן, etc. ;] __1. with genitive, born of. __2. As subst., ὁ, ἡ ἔ., a child, son or daughter; in pl., descendants: τέκνα ἢ ἔ., children or grand-children, 1Ti.5:4.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

5:4

G1549 ἔκγονον (ékgonon)