teknon denotes a child in family relationships and, in addressed or descriptive settings, people regarded as children.

The term most often identifies children within households, parent-child obligations, descent, and family loss or care. It also addresses or describes people in a close formative relationship, and it can identify groups by their stated relation or characterization, such as children of God, light, obedience, wrath, or the devil.

1. Children in household and descent relations · dominant

   The plural and singular forms occur in clauses about parents, offspring, and household care: in Colossians 3:20 the APB renders an instruction for children to obey parents, while in 2 Corinthians 12:14 it renders the parent-child obligation to store up for children. In Acts 7:5 the genitive singular stands in the statement that he had no child, and Mark 12:19 places the accusative singular in a case involving a brother who dies without leaving a child.

   Colossians 3:202 Corinthians 12:14Acts 7:5Mark 12:19Luke 1:71 Timothy 3:4
2. Close formative or affectionate address · common

   Vocative and other singular forms can address or describe an individual in a close relationship rather than a household scene. In 1 Timothy 1:18 the vocative singular addresses Timothy when a charge is set before him; in 1 Corinthians 4:17 the nominative singular describes Timothy as beloved and faithful in the Lord. The plural vocative in Galatians 4:19 addresses the recipients while the speaker describes labor pains until Christ is formed in them.

   1 Timothy 1:181 Corinthians 4:17Galatians 4:192 Timothy 2:12 Corinthians 6:133 John 1:4
3. People identified by a stated relation or quality · occasional

   The plural form identifies groups through the relation or description attached to them. In 1 John 3:10 the APB renders the contrast between children of God and children of the devil; in Ephesians 5:8 it renders an exhortation to walk as children of light. In Ephesians 2:3 the same plural occurs in the statement that all were children of wrath.

   1 John 3:10Ephesians 5:8Ephesians 2:31 Peter 1:14John 1:122 Peter 2:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses “children” and “child” in family, address, and descriptive clauses; Luke 15:31 renders a vocative singular as “Son.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, its English wording does not by itself fix the term's contribution in every clause.