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Strong's G5045 τέκτων (tekton)

Tekton means “carpenter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5045 — negeb (“side”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5045
Language Greek
Linked Usages 30
Books 18

Strong's G5045 Quick Answer

Strong's G5045 τέκτων (tekton) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tekton (tek'-tone) n. 1. an artisan (as producer of fabrics) 2. (specially), a craftsman in wood It has 30 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include carpenter's and carpenter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
tekton (tek'-tone) n. 1. an artisan (as producer of fabrics) 2. (specially), a craftsman in wood
Usage
30 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
carpenter's and carpenter

Meaning and Definition

tekton (tek'-tone) n. 1. an artisan (as producer of fabrics) 2. (specially), a craftsman in wood [from the base of G5098] KJV: carpenter Root(s): G5088

Original Word
τέκτων
Transliteration
tekton
Derivation
Root: τίκτω R1: 5088
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5045. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

craftsman

Usage: τέκτων, -ονος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for חָרָשׁ ;] an artificer in wood, stone or metal, but esp. a carpenter (see MM, xxiv): Mat.13:55, Mrk.6:3.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5045 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tekton, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

carpenter Mark 6:3 carpenter's Matthew 13:55

How Strong's G5045 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 23 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5045 (τέκτων) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5045 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5045 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 13:55 KJV

Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Mark 6:3 KJV

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

Strong's G5045 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

1 Kingdoms 13:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.

2 Kingdoms 5:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar wood, and carpenters, and stonemasons: and they built a house for David.

3 Kingdoms 7:2 Septuagint / Brenton

the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to King Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

Strong's G5045 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 5:53 Septuagint / Brenton

And all they that had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the temple of the Lord was not yet built.

Wisdom of Solomon 13:11 Septuagint / Brenton

Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, And taken off all the bark skillfully round about, And hath wrought it handsomely, And made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;

Wisdom of Sirach 38:27 Septuagint / Brenton

So every carpenter and workmaster, That laboreth night and day: And they that cut and grave seals, And are diligent to make great variety, And give themselves to counterfeit imagery, And watch to finish a work:

Usage Excerpts

First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5045.

1 Kingdoms 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.
2 Kingdoms 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar wood, and carpenters, and stonemasons: and they built a house for David.
3 Kingdoms 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to King Solomon, and he wrought all the works.
4 Kingdoms 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they gave the money that had been collected into the hands of them that wrought the works, the overseers of the house of the Lord; and they gave it out to the carpenters and to the builders that wrought in the house of the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
even to the carpenters, and builders, and masons, and also to purchase timber and hewn stones, to repair the breaches of the house.
4 Kingdoms 24:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he carried away the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand prisoners, and every artificer and smith: and only the poor of the land were left.
4 Kingdoms 24:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand artificers and smiths: all were mighty men fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.
1 Chronicles 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Meonothai begot Ophrah: and Seraiah begot Jobab, the father of Ageaddair, for they were artificers.
1 Chronicles 14:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, and masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.
1 Chronicles 22:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of them that are with thee do thou add to the multitude of workmen; let there be artificers and masons, and carpenters, and every skillful workman in every work;
2 Chronicles 24:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king and Jehoiada the priest gave it to the workmen employed in the service of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, also smiths and braziers to repair the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 34:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They gave it also to the carpenters and builders, to buy squared stones, and timber for beams to cover the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
Ezra 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Proverbs 14:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that go astray devise evils: But the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: But compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good.
Isaiah 40:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilded it over, and made it a similitude?
Isaiah 40:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 41:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.
Isaiah 44:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
Isaiah 44:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.
Jeremiah 10:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
Hosea 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:
Hosea 13:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.
Zechariah 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord showed me four artificers.
Matthew 13:55 New Testament, KJV
Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Mark 6:3 New Testament, KJV
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
1 Esdras 5:53 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And all they that had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the temple of the Lord was not yet built.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, And taken off all the bark skillfully round about, And hath wrought it handsomely, And made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;
Wisdom of Sirach 38:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So every carpenter and workmaster, That laboreth night and day: And they that cut and grave seals, And are diligent to make great variety, And give themselves to counterfeit imagery, And watch to finish a work:
Letter of Jeremiah 1:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5045, grouped by book.

1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5045 FAQ

What does tekton (τέκτων) mean?

Tekton (Strong's G5045) is a Greek word most simply glossed "carpenter". tekton (tek'-tone) n. 1. an artisan (as producer of fabrics) 2. (specially), a craftsman in wood

How many times is tekton (τέκτων) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's G5045 across 18 books.

Where can I study tekton (τέκτων) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5045 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate tekton (τέκτων)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as carpenter's and carpenter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5045 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5045, with linked reader references where each row is available.