γένεσις
génesis · G1078 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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be born, birth
Coming into existence by birth
ExamplesMatthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:14 “You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth.
James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
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lineage, family line
Persons of successive generations who are related by birth
ExamplesMatthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
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history
An account of the origin and life of someone
ExamplesMatthew 1:1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
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existence
The state of existence
ExamplesJames 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our body’s parts as that which defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἸησοῦςJesus 2
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὕτωso, thus, in this way 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- πρόσωπονface 1
- τροχόςcourse 1
- βίβλοςscroll 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- יָלַד yâlad · H3205 · to bear, to father, to beget
- יָלַד (yâlad, H3205) denotes the concrete act of bearing/begetting offspring, while γένεσις (génesis, G1078) abstracts to the concept/event of nativity itself or the broader notion of origin/nature.
- תּוֹלְדָה tôwlᵉdâh · H8435 · order of birth, line, genealogy
- Hebrew תּוֹלְדָה and Greek γένεσις both denote genealogical record, lineage account, or origin narrative; the LXX regularly renders תּוֹלְדָה formulae (e.g., 'these are the generations of...') with γένεσις, establishing direct translation equivalence for this technical usage in narrative contexts.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Lineage, family line10.24
- Used of an ancestral record, as of the record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah in Matthew 1:1.
- Existence13.71
- Used abstractly of the natural order of things, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the history sense below.
- Be born, birth23.46
- Used of the event of being born, as of the birth of Jesus the Messiah in Matthew 1:18 and the joy and gladness many will have over his birth in Luke 1:14.
- History33.19
- Used of a chronicle or natural course of events, as of the world of unrighteousness the tongue is compared to as it stains the whole course of life in James 3:6.
Word family 30 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root γίνομαι
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γενέσεως, ἡ (ΓΑΝΩ (Curtius, § 128)), in Greek writings for the first time in Homer, Iliad…
1. source, origin: βίβλος γενέσεως τίνος a book of one's lineage, i. e. in which his ancestry or his progeny are enumerated (equivalent to תּולְדות סֵפֶר, Gen 5:1, etc.) (Mt 1:1).
2. used of birth, nativity, in Mt 1:18 and Lk 1:14, for Rec. γέννησις (ἡμέραι τῆς γενέσεως μου equivalent to ἀφ' οὗ ἐγεννήθην, Judith 12:18 cf. 20); πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως his native (natural) face, Jas 1:23.
3. of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life: ὁ τροχός τῆς γενέσεως the wheel (cf. English machinery) of life, Jas 3:6 (cf. Grimm on Sap. vii. 5); but others explain it the wheel of human origin which as soon as men are born begins to run, i. e. the course (cf. English round) of life.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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