Words the Bible translates as children
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- teknonτέκνονa child: someone born to a parent, son or daughter, and by extension anyone belonging to a parent-like bond
- spermaσπέρμαseed: the living source from which a plant grows or a line of descendants comes
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
+2 more meanings
- seed: what a plant produces to reproduce itself, together with the sowing of it and the crop it yields.
- semen: the male emission from which a child is conceived.
- taphטַףchildren, little ones: the young, dependent members of a household or nation, taken as a group rather than as one child
- olelעוֹלֵלa young child: a small, dependent little one, from infancy through the early years.
- yalidיָלִידone born into a particular household or family line: a person identified by whose house or whose stock he was born to
- tse'etsaצֶאֱצָאwhat has come forth from a source: the children and descendants a person has produced, or the growth a stretch of ground sends up
- teknionτεκνίονa tender way of saying "my dear children," used by a teacher or leader to address the people he loves and cares for as his own family.
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