τέκτων, -ονος, 6, (τεκεῖν, Tiktw; akin to τέχνη, τεύχω, hence prop. ‘ begetter’ [Curtius § 2857), fr. Hom. down, Sept. for wm ; @ worker in wood, a carpenter: Mt. xiii. 55; Mk. vi. 3 [see WH. App. on the latter pass.].

τέκτων tektōn 2x

an artisan; and spc. one who works with wood, a carpenter, Mt. 13:55; Mk. 6:3*

τέκτων, -ονος, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for חָרָשׁ ;]

an artificer in wood, stone or metal, but esp. a carpenter (v. MM, xxiv): Mt 13:55, Mk 6:3.†

τέκτων βα(σιλέως) καὶ τῶν βα(σιλι)κῶν τέκνων, P Tor II. 111} ἕτερα τέκνα, ““« second family,’’ BGU IV. τοργ23 (time of Claudius/Nero) τὴν μητέρα καὶ Δήμητριν καὶ τὰ τέ[κ]να. αὐτοῦ ἀσπάΐζου, BGU I. 2345 (c. A.D. 70-80) ὥσπερ ἰδ[(]ων τέκνων, P Lond 89728 (A.p. 84) (= III. p. 207) μέλει σοι πολλὰ περὶ ἐμοῦ μελ[ήσε]. σοι δὲ ὡς ὑπὲρ ἰδίου τέκνου, P Oxy IT. 237% 386 (Ἀν. 186) ἡ δὲ κτῆσις μετὰ θάνατον τοῖς τέκνοις κεκράτηται, ‘but the right of ownership after their death has been settled upon the children” (Edd.), and BGU II. 419% (a.p, 276-7) οὐκ ἐπελεύσομα[ι] περὶ αὐτῶν TO[UT]wy οὐδὲ οὐδεὶς τῶν παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ οὐδὲ τέκνον T[E]kvov. As showing the oppression of the Egyptian middle-class, we may note the case of a certain Pamonthius, whose children had been seized by his creditors—oltives ot ἀνελεήμονες ἐκεῖνοι καὶ ἄθεοι ἀπέσπασαν τὰ πάντα τὰ ἑαυτοῦ τέκνα νήπια κομιδῇ, ‘who, those pitiless and godless men, carried off all his children, being yet quite in their infancy ” (Bell) (P Lond 191578—a.p. 330-340). (2) Τέκνον is also used as a form of kindly address, even in the case of grown-up persons—P Oxy I. 33!!! (late ii/a.D.) τρέχε, τέκνον, τελεύτα, P Giss 1. 12° (letter to a strategus— ii/A.D.) παρακαλῶ σε οὖν, τέκνον, .. . ἐντυπήν (“pattern”) μοι πέμψον, similarly 20. 212° (time of Trajan) ἔρρωσο τέκνον, and P Oxy VII. 1063} (ii/iii A.D.) χαίροις, τέκνον ᾿Αμόι, ‘greeting, my son Amois !”’ (3) Schaeffer ad P Iand 138 has brought together various exx. of τέκνον and vids, e.g. P Gen I. 741 ἢ (ili/a.p.) “Hpals ᾿Αγριππίί(Ἴνῳ τῷ υἱῷ πλεῖστα x(alpev). πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγειαίνειν καὶ προκόπτειν. γείνωσκε, τέκνον, ἀπεληλυθέναι ἐμέ, P Amh II. 136!* (Π||Δ.Ὁ.}᾽ Ἀπίων Ὡρίωνι τῶι υἱῶι χαίρειν. ... γράφω σοι, τέκνον, and P Oxy VI. 93015 (ii/iii A.b.) ὥστε οὖν, τέκνον, μελησάτω σοι; and on the verso Πτολεμαίῳ vice. (4) For the Hebraistic idiom underlying the use of τέκνον with genitives of quality, as in Eph 58 τέκνα φωτός, see Deissmann 4S p. 161 ff., and s.v. vids.

τέκτων (tektōn) — craftsman. τέκτων, ονος, ὁ (feminine in [Refs 5th c.BC+], worker in wood, carpenter, joiner, τέκτονες ἄνδρες, οἵ οἱ ἐποίησαν θάλαμον καὶ δῶμα καὶ αὐλήν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νηῶν, δούρων τ., [Refs 8th c.BC+]: it is frequently opposed to to a smith (χαλκεύς), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to a mason (λιθολόγος), [Refs 5th c.BC+] —but also,

2. generally, any craftsman or workman, κεραοξόος τ. a worker in horn, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; rarely of metal-workers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; sculptor, statuary, [Refs]

3. master in any art, as in gymnastics, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of poets, τέκτονες σοφοὶ (i.e. ἐπέων) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τέκτονες κώμων, i.e. the χορευταί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. νωδυνίας, i.e. a physician, [Refs]; δεξιᾶς χερὸς ἔργον, δικαίας τέκτονος a true workman, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

4. metaphorically, maker, author, νεικέων [Refs]; κακῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γένους the author of a race, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ψευδῶν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit ták[snull]an- 'carpenter', ták[snull]ati, tā[snull][tnull]i 'form by cutting, plane, chisel, chop', Lett. test, tēst 'hew, plane', etc.: compare τέχνη.)