Strong G5088τίκτω
to give birth to
- Transliteration
- tiktō
- Pronunciation
- tik'-to
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A strengthened from of a primary word τέκω tekō (which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses); to produce (from seed as a mother a plant the earth etc.) literal or figurative: - bear be born bring forth be delivered be in travail.
Detailed definition
τίκτω
[in LXX chiefly for יָלַד;]
prop., of parents,
to beget, bring forth, but esp. the latter, and so always in NT: absol., Luk.1:57 2:6, Jhn.16:21, Gal.4:27" (LXX) (see M, Pr., 127), Rev.12:2, 4; υἱόν, Mat.1:21, 23 1:25 Luk.1:31 2:7, Rev.12:5, 13; pass., Mat.2:2, Luk.2:11. Metaphorical, of the earth, βοτάνην, Heb.6:7 (Æsch., al.); of lust, ἁμαρτίαν, Jas.1:15.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָלַד;]
prop., of parents,
to beget, bring forth, but esp. the latter, and so always in NT: absol., Luk.1:57 2:6, Jhn.16:21, Gal.4:27" (LXX) (see M, Pr., 127), Rev.12:2, 4; υἱόν, Mat.1:21, 23 1:25 Luk.1:31 2:7, Rev.12:5, 13; pass., Mat.2:2, Luk.2:11. Metaphorical, of the earth, βοτάνην, Heb.6:7 (Æsch., al.); of lust, ἁμαρτίαν, Jas.1:15.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5088 appears in 18 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bring7
- deliver4
- bear2
- bringeth2
- bearest1
- born1
- child1
- travail1
First verses
- Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
- Matthew 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
- Matthew 1:25And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
- Matthew 2:2Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
- Luke 1:31And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
- Luke 1:57Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
- Luke 2:6And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
- Luke 2:7And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
- Luke 2:11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
- John 16:21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
- Galatians 4:27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
- Hebrews 6:7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
- Hebrews 11:11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- James 1:15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Revelation 12:2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
- Revelation 12:4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
- Revelation 12:5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
- Revelation 12:13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
τίκ-τω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.86, etc.)]: future τέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.249, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 493, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92.β, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 851, 869, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 747, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1037 (Oracle texts), “Th.” 509; also τέξομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 469, 898, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 101, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 768, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 744, etc.)]; poetry infinitive also τεκεῖσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Venerem” 127; _plural_ τεξείεσθε 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 124)]: aorist ἔτεκον, Epic dialect τέκον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.352, 5.875)], etc.: aorist 1 ἔτεξα only late, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Hymni” 41.8 codices (for ἐντήξῃ)] is probable reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 553))]: perfect τέτοκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 591, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 5.39, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 757, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 64.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.13, compare ἐντίκτω)]:—middle, in same sense as active, only in Poets, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 127, “fragment” 44)]: future (see. above): aorist ἐτεκόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1193 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect τεκόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.59, +others)]; subjunctive τέκηαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.905)]:—passive, present indicative τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 437)]; infinitive τίκτεσθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.53;)]participle τικτόμενος[Refs ([prev. work] 54)]: future τεχθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 2.9.2, “Geoponica” 17.6.1, etc.)]: aorist ἐτέχθην [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 18, Ps.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1132.44, LXX.Num.26.60 (variant), +others, “Geoponica” 17.6.2, etc.:)]perfect τέτεγμαι, infinitive τετέχθαι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.12, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.7.7, etc.)]--These passive tenses seem not to have been used in correct Attic dialect:—bring into the world, engender; of the father, beget, of the mother, bring forth.
I imperfect active τίκτε, ἔτικτε, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] usually of the father, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.628, 6.155, 206, 11.224, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 44 (of the mother, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.180, 22.428, 24.497, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.325); in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus (“Frr.” 17,142))], Lyric poetry, and Trag. the present and imperfect are also used of the mother, ἃ Θήβαν ἔτικτεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.85, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 18.50; μᾶτερ, ἅ μ᾽ ἔτικτες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 321 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ag.” 763 (Lyric poetry, of Υβρις), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 533)]; δεινὸν τὸ τίκτειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 770, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151a, etc.; τ. καὶ γεννᾷ [prev. author] “Smp.” 206d)]; of both parents. Στάσις δὲ καὶ Κρόνος.. τίκτετον τύραννον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 240.)]
I.2 aorist active τέκε, ἔτεκε, mostly of the mother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.36, 352, 2.513, etc.)] (also future middle τέξεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.99); τεκεῖν τινά τινι 2.658, 6.22, etc.; ὑπό τινι 2.714, 728, etc.; τ. ἔκ τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 20; παρά τινος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 42; παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 62: but τέκεν)] of the father, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.450, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.489, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 208, “fragment” 99.2: _metaphorically_, τῷ τεκόντι ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 212a.)]
I.3 the aorist middle τέκετο is commonly used of the father, as [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.741, 6.154, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 19: but τέκετο)] of the mother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.742, 15.187, 22.48, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 46)]; so τῶν τεκομένων of the mother, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 419 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.4 the two are conjoined, ὃν τέκετο θάνατος, ἔτεκε δ᾽ αἰόλος δράκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 834 (codices, Lyric poetry).)]
I.5 aorist active is used in plural of both parents, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.55, 8.554 (οὓς Ἑκάβη ἠδὲ Πρίαμος τέκε παῖδας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.234))]; aorist middle τεκόμεσθα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.61, 24.293.)]
I.5.b οἱ τεκόντες the parents, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 49, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 999, etc.)]; the Article is rarely omitted, πατέρων τε καὶ τεκόντων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 329 (Lyric poetry): with _genitive_, κιόντων τοῖς τεκοῦσι [prev. author] “Pers.” 245 (troch.): ὁ τεκών)] the father, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 690, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1108)]; ἁ τεκοῦσα the mother, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 926 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 133, etc. (rarely ἡ τίκτουσα, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1247, “El.” 342); in Prose, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.8)]; ἡ τ. αὐτόν his mother, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; ὅ τ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τεκών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 335.)]
I.6 frequently in in Medicine texts and other Prose, of women, τίκτουσι ῥηϊδίως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 5,compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.54, +others, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.670; κόρον ἔτεκε “IG” 42(1).121.5, compare 21 (Epid., 4th c.BC).)]
II of female animals, bear young, breed, of mares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.150, 20.225)]; of cows, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 591)]; of sheep, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.86, etc.; τὰς τετοκυίας τοκάδας “PCair.Zen.” 292.305, compare 710.4 (3rd c.BC); ἐὰν τέκῃ ἵππος [prev. work] 635.2 (3rd c.BC))]; of the hare, τὰ μὲν τέτοκε, τὰ δὲ τίκτει, τὰ δὲ κύει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.13)]; of birds, hatch, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.313)]; ᾠὰ τ. lay eggs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 185, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 718b23, etc.)]; of fish, spawn, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “HA” 568a16, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.718, etc.)]
III of the earth, bear, produce, ἔμπεδα μῆλα (sheep) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.113; ἡ γῆ.. τίκτουσα ποίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 333)]:—middle, γαῖαν.., ἣ τὰ πάντα τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 127, compare “fragment” 44.4)]:—passive, τίκτεσθαι δὲ φόρους γᾶς.. εὐχόμεθ᾽ ἀεί [Refs ([prev. author] “Supp.” 674 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV metaphorically, generate, engender, produce, λέγω τὴν χώρην λιμὸν τέξεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49; ἐπειχθῆναι πρῆγμα τίκτει σφάλματα [prev. work] 10.ζ)]; of impiety, τὸ γὰρ δυσσεβὲς ἔργον μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 759 (Lyric poetry), compare 763 (Lyric poetry, compare above 1.1), “Ch.” 805 (Lyric poetry); ἡ ἐπιθυμία τ. ἁμαρτίαν NT.Jam.1.15; μὴ θράσος τέκῃ φόβον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 498)]; of Night as the mother of Day, τῆς.. τεκούσης φῶς τόδ᾽ εὐφρόνης [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 279; ὃν αἰόλα νὺξ.. τίκτει.., Ἅλιον αἰτῶ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 95 (Lyric poetry): generally, τ. [νόμους] [prev. author] “OT” 870 (Lyric poetry); χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί [prev. author] “Aj.” 522; τ. ἀοιδάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 767 (Lyric poetry); ὕδωρ δὲ πίνων οὐδὲν ἂν τέκοι σοφόν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 199; τ. ῥήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1059 (_anapaest meter_))]; also in Prose, νουσήματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ χυμῶν” 12; ἃ ἀεὶ τίκτει πόλεμον καὶ ἔχθραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 547a; πολλοὺς καὶ καλοὺς λόγους [prev. author] “Smp.” 210d; [δὰς] πῦρ τέξεται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.23, etc.:)] —passive, τῷδε κέρδει (sic codices) κέρδος ἄλλο τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 437. (τίκτω from τί-τκ-ω reduplicate from τεκ (τέκνον, etc.).))]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.86, etc.)]: future τέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (11.249, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 493, Oracle texts cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92.β, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 851, 869, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 747, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1037 (Oracle texts), “Th.” 509; also τέξομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 469, 898, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 101, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 768, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 744, etc.)]; poetry infinitive also τεκεῖσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Venerem” 127; _plural_ τεξείεσθε 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 124)]: aorist ἔτεκον, Epic dialect τέκον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.352, 5.875)], etc.: aorist 1 ἔτεξα only late, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Hymni” 41.8 codices (for ἐντήξῃ)] is probable reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 553))]: perfect τέτοκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 591, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 5.39, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 757, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 64.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.13, compare ἐντίκτω)]:—middle, in same sense as active, only in Poets, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 127, “fragment” 44)]: future (see. above): aorist ἐτεκόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1193 (Lyric poetry))], Epic dialect τεκόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.59, +others)]; subjunctive τέκηαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.905)]:—passive, present indicative τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 437)]; infinitive τίκτεσθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.53;)]participle τικτόμενος[Refs ([prev. work] 54)]: future τεχθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 2.9.2, “Geoponica” 17.6.1, etc.)]: aorist ἐτέχθην [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 18, Ps.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1132.44, LXX.Num.26.60 (variant), +others, “Geoponica” 17.6.2, etc.:)]perfect τέτεγμαι, infinitive τετέχθαι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.12, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.7.7, etc.)]--These passive tenses seem not to have been used in correct Attic dialect:—bring into the world, engender; of the father, beget, of the mother, bring forth.
I imperfect active τίκτε, ἔτικτε, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] usually of the father, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.628, 6.155, 206, 11.224, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 44 (of the mother, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.180, 22.428, 24.497, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.325); in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus (“Frr.” 17,142))], Lyric poetry, and Trag. the present and imperfect are also used of the mother, ἃ Θήβαν ἔτικτεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.85, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 18.50; μᾶτερ, ἅ μ᾽ ἔτικτες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 321 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ag.” 763 (Lyric poetry, of Υβρις), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 533)]; δεινὸν τὸ τίκτειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 770, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151a, etc.; τ. καὶ γεννᾷ [prev. author] “Smp.” 206d)]; of both parents. Στάσις δὲ καὶ Κρόνος.. τίκτετον τύραννον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 240.)]
I.2 aorist active τέκε, ἔτεκε, mostly of the mother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.36, 352, 2.513, etc.)] (also future middle τέξεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.99); τεκεῖν τινά τινι 2.658, 6.22, etc.; ὑπό τινι 2.714, 728, etc.; τ. ἔκ τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 20; παρά τινος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 42; παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 62: but τέκεν)] of the father, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.450, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.489, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 208, “fragment” 99.2: _metaphorically_, τῷ τεκόντι ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 212a.)]
I.3 the aorist middle τέκετο is commonly used of the father, as [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.741, 6.154, +others, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 19: but τέκετο)] of the mother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.742, 15.187, 22.48, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 46)]; so τῶν τεκομένων of the mother, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 419 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.4 the two are conjoined, ὃν τέκετο θάνατος, ἔτεκε δ᾽ αἰόλος δράκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 834 (codices, Lyric poetry).)]
I.5 aorist active is used in plural of both parents, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.55, 8.554 (οὓς Ἑκάβη ἠδὲ Πρίαμος τέκε παῖδας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.234))]; aorist middle τεκόμεσθα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.61, 24.293.)]
I.5.b οἱ τεκόντες the parents, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 49, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 999, etc.)]; the Article is rarely omitted, πατέρων τε καὶ τεκόντων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 329 (Lyric poetry): with _genitive_, κιόντων τοῖς τεκοῦσι [prev. author] “Pers.” 245 (troch.): ὁ τεκών)] the father, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 690, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1108)]; ἁ τεκοῦσα the mother, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 926 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 133, etc. (rarely ἡ τίκτουσα, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1247, “El.” 342); in Prose, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.8)]; ἡ τ. αὐτόν his mother, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116; ὅ τ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τεκών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 335.)]
I.6 frequently in in Medicine texts and other Prose, of women, τίκτουσι ῥηϊδίως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 5,compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.54, +others, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.670; κόρον ἔτεκε “IG” 42(1).121.5, compare 21 (Epid., 4th c.BC).)]
II of female animals, bear young, breed, of mares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.150, 20.225)]; of cows, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 591)]; of sheep, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.86, etc.; τὰς τετοκυίας τοκάδας “PCair.Zen.” 292.305, compare 710.4 (3rd c.BC); ἐὰν τέκῃ ἵππος [prev. work] 635.2 (3rd c.BC))]; of the hare, τὰ μὲν τέτοκε, τὰ δὲ τίκτει, τὰ δὲ κύει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.13)]; of birds, hatch, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.313)]; ᾠὰ τ. lay eggs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 185, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 718b23, etc.)]; of fish, spawn, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “HA” 568a16, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.718, etc.)]
III of the earth, bear, produce, ἔμπεδα μῆλα (sheep) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.113; ἡ γῆ.. τίκτουσα ποίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 333)]:—middle, γαῖαν.., ἣ τὰ πάντα τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 127, compare “fragment” 44.4)]:—passive, τίκτεσθαι δὲ φόρους γᾶς.. εὐχόμεθ᾽ ἀεί [Refs ([prev. author] “Supp.” 674 (Lyric poetry).)]
IV metaphorically, generate, engender, produce, λέγω τὴν χώρην λιμὸν τέξεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49; ἐπειχθῆναι πρῆγμα τίκτει σφάλματα [prev. work] 10.ζ)]; of impiety, τὸ γὰρ δυσσεβὲς ἔργον μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 759 (Lyric poetry), compare 763 (Lyric poetry, compare above 1.1), “Ch.” 805 (Lyric poetry); ἡ ἐπιθυμία τ. ἁμαρτίαν NT.Jam.1.15; μὴ θράσος τέκῃ φόβον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 498)]; of Night as the mother of Day, τῆς.. τεκούσης φῶς τόδ᾽ εὐφρόνης [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 279; ὃν αἰόλα νὺξ.. τίκτει.., Ἅλιον αἰτῶ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 95 (Lyric poetry): generally, τ. [νόμους] [prev. author] “OT” 870 (Lyric poetry); χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί [prev. author] “Aj.” 522; τ. ἀοιδάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 767 (Lyric poetry); ὕδωρ δὲ πίνων οὐδὲν ἂν τέκοι σοφόν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 199; τ. ῥήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1059 (_anapaest meter_))]; also in Prose, νουσήματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ χυμῶν” 12; ἃ ἀεὶ τίκτει πόλεμον καὶ ἔχθραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 547a; πολλοὺς καὶ καλοὺς λόγους [prev. author] “Smp.” 210d; [δὰς] πῦρ τέξεται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.23, etc.:)] —passive, τῷδε κέρδει (sic codices) κέρδος ἄλλο τίκτεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 437. (τίκτω from τί-τκ-ω reduplicate from τεκ (τέκνον, etc.).))]