tiktō · give birth

What it means

tiktō (τίκτω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “give birth”.

How to say it

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

1. To have a baby, or be born.
2. To produce something, like fruit.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• give birth ×6
• bear ×2
• had given birth to ×2
• has been born ×2
• she gave birth to ×2
• gives birth to ×1
• produces ×1
• she gave birth ×1
• she is giving birth ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Luke×5
• John×1
• Galatians×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 1:21

  And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

• Matthew 1:23

  “Look, the virgin will be pregnant and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Immanuel,” which is, translated, “God with us.”

• Matthew 1:25

  and he did not know her until she had given birth to a son; and he called his name Jesus.

• Matthew 2:2

  saying, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to bow down before him.”

• Luke 1:31

  And look, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will call his name Jesus.

• Luke 1:57

  Now for Elizabeth the time came for her to give birth, and she bore a son.

• Luke 2:6

  And it happened while they were there that the days were completed for her to give birth.

• Luke 2:7

  And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the guest room.

• Luke 2:11

  for today a Savior has been born to you who is the Messiah, the Lord, in the city of David.

• John 16:21

  A woman, when she is giving birth, has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she has borne the child, she no longer remembers the affliction because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

• Galatians 4:27

  For it is written: Rejoice, barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in labor; because many are the children of the desolate one, more than of her who has a husband.

• Hebrews 6:7

  For land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

• James 1:15

  Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.

• Revelation 12:2

  and she was pregnant, and she cries out in labor pains and in agony to give birth.

• Revelation 12:4

  And his tail sweeps away a third of the stars of heaven, and it threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

• Revelation 12:5

  And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

• Revelation 12:13

  And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

And 1 more times.