Strong's G5042: τεκνογονία (teknogonía) Meaning

Quick Definition

τεκνογονία, ας, ἡ n.f. child bearing

Strong's Definition

childbirth (parentage), i.e. (by implication) maternity (the performance of maternal duties)

Derivation: from the same as G5041 (τεκνογονέω);

KJV Usage: childbearing

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

τεκνογονία (G5042)

noun, f. | -ας | τίκτω + γίνομαι

23.52 · Physiological Processes and States · Birth, Procreation

to bear, to give birth to give birth to a child All languages have expressions for human birth, though these are frequently in idiomatic forms, for example, ‘to drop a child’ or ‘to cause a baby to pass between the legs.’ A number of languages have a variety of terms referring to giving birth, and some of these may involve unfortunate connotations. One must therefore be careful about the selection of appropriate expressions.

1TI 2:15

¹ It is possible that τεκνογονέω and τεκνογονία differ somewhat in connotation from τίκτω[a] and γεννάω[b] in being stylistically more formal, but there seems to be no significant denotative distinction in meaning.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

τεκνογονία, τεκνογονίας, ἡ, child-bearing: 1Ti_2:15. (Aristotle, h. a. 7, 1, 8 (p. 582{a} , 28).)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

τεκνογονία teknogonia 1x

the bearing of children, the rearing of a family, 1 Tim. 2:15*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* τεκνογονία, -ας, ἡ, child-bearing: I Ti 2:15 (Arist.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

τεκνογονία [page 628] Ramsay Teaching p. 170 ff. tries to show that, while τεκνογονέω is used in a physical sense in 1Ti_5:14 , the abstract noun τεκνογονία in 1Ti_2:15 points rather to the power of maternal instinct or motherhood. But it is by no means clear that the writer did not use the two words with the same connotation. In any case it is not likely that, with Ellicott and other commentators, we are to stress the article and in τῆς τεκνογονίας of 1Ti_2:15 find a reference to the (great) child-bearing, i.e. the bearing of Jesus, foreshadowed in Gen_3:16 .

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

τεκνογονία (teknogonia) — childbearing. τεκνογον-ία, ἡ, child-bearing, [NT+4th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

τεκνογονία, -ας, ἡ, child-bearing: 1Ti.2:15 (Arist.).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

2:15

G5042 τεκνογονία (teknogonía)