Quick Definition
τεκνοτροφέω v. I bring up children
Strong's Definition
from a compound of 5043 and 5142; to be a childrearer, i.e. fulfil the duties of a female parent
KJV Usage: bring up children
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | τίκτω + τρέφω
35.51 · Help, Care For · Rear, Bring Up
to raise, to rear, to bring up to raise a child to maturity by providing for physical and psychological needs To raise or bring up children may be expressed in a number of different ways, for example, ‘to give food to children,’ ‘to take care of children,’ ‘to be a parent to children,’ ‘to cause a child to become an adult,’ or ‘to make a child become like oneself.’
1 There may very well be subtle differences of meaning in the series in 35.51, but there is no direct contextual evidence to support significant distinctions in meaning.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τεκνο-τροφέω, -ῶ : 1 aor. erexvorpodnaa; (τεκνοτρόφος, and this from τέκνον and τρέφω) ; to bring up children: 1 Tim. v.10. (φέρει ὕδωρ, ὅταν τεκνοτροφῇ, sc. the bee, Aristot. h. a. 9, 40 [27], 14 [p. 625», 20].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τεκνοτροφέω teknotropheō 1x
to rear a family, 1 Tim. 5:10*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* τεκνο-τροφέω, -ῶ to rear young (of bees, Arist.),
to bring up children: I Ti 5:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τεκνοτροφέω. With this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Tim 5°) = ‘bring up children,” cf. Epict. i. 23. 3 διὰ τί ἀποσυμβουλεύεις TO σοφῳ τεκνοτροφεῖν ;
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τεκνοτροφέω (teknotropheō) — to raise children. τεκνο-τροφέω, rear children, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of animals, rear young ones, [Refs 4th c.BC+]