Word Summary
tiktō: to beget, bring forth
Original Word: τίκτωTransliteration: tiktō
Phonetic Spelling: (tik'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to beget, bring forth
Meaning: to beget, bring forth
Strong's Concordance
bear, be born, bring forth
A strengthened form of a primary teko tek'-o (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses); to produce (from seed, as a mother, a plant, the earth, etc.), literally or figuratively -- bear, be born, bring forth, be delivered, be in travail.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5088: τίκτωτίκτω; future
τέξομαι; 2 aorist
ἔτεκον; 1 aorist passive
ἐτέχθην; from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
יָלַד;
to bring forth, bear, produce (fruit from the seed); properly, of women giving birth: absolutely,
Luke 1:57 (
Buttmann, 267 (230));
; John 16:21; Galatians 4:27; Hebrews 11:11 Rec.; Revelation 12:2, 4; υἱόν, Matthew 1:21, 23, 25; Luke 1:31; Luke 2:7; Revelation 12:5, 13; passive, Matthew 2:2; Luke 2:11; of the earth bringing forth its fruits: βοτάνην, Hebrews 6:7 (Euripides, Cycl. 333; Γαιαν, ἡ τά πάντα τίκτεται, Aeschylus Cho. 127; γῆς τῆς πάντα τικτούσης, Philo opif. m. § 45, who draws out at length the comparison of the earth to a mother). metaphorically, to bear, bring forth: ἁμαρτίαν, in the simile where ἡ ἐπιθυμία is likened to a female, James 1:15 (ἀρετήν, Plato, conv., p. 212 a.).