Strong's #5040: teknion (pronounced tek-nee'-on)

diminutive of 5043; an infant, i.e. (plural figuratively) darlings (Christian converts):--little children.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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teknion

1) a little child

2) in the NT used as a term of kindly address by teachers to their disciples

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: diminutive of G5043

Citing in TDNT: 5:636, 759

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

John 13:33: " Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me:"
Galatians 4:19: "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ"
1 John 2:1: "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not."
1 John 2:12: "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake."
1 John 2:28: "And now, little children, abide in him; that, when"
1 John 3:7: " Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous,"
1 John 3:18: "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but"
1 John 4:4: "are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because"
1 John 5:21: " Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen."