ἄτεκνος
ateknos · childless
Greek word · Strong’s number G815 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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ateknos (ἄτεκνος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “childless”.
How to say it
a·tek·nos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Having no offspring.
From Abbott-Smith (1922)
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Where it appears
- Luke 20:28
saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
- Luke 20:29
Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;