Greek word · G5041

τεκνογονέω

teknogoneō

to have children

Appears once in the Greek New Testament.

What it means

τεκνογονέω, -ῶ

to beget or bear children: 1 Timothy 5:14 (Anthol.).†

(AS)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

1 Timothy · 1

1 Timothy 5:14 τεκνογονεῖν, to bear children,

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Here: A compound of "child" and "beget/bear." It appears only here in the NT. The related noun shows up at 2:15 ("saved through childbearing"). In that world, bearing children was the expected and honoured result of marriage.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.