ἀγενής
agenḗs · G36 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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low, insignificant, inferior
Pertaining to being obscure or insignificant, with the possible implication of lacking in noble descent
Examples1 Corinthians 1:28 and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κόσμοςworld 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰμίto be 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκλέγομαιto choose 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἄσημος ásēmos · G767 · low, insignificant, inferior
- Both terms denote low or insignificant social standing, converging on the sense of being ignoble or of no distinction. The proposed nuance — noble lineage versus a lack of distinguishing marks — is a real distinction that does not undermine the underlying convergence around ignoble or insignificant status.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Low, insignificant, inferior87.59
- This adjective denotes what is despised or held in low regard, as in 1 Corinthians 1:28's statement that God chose the insignificant things of the world and the despised.
Word family 29 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (εος ((οῦς), ὁ, ἡ (γένος), opposed to εὐγενής, of no family, a man of base birth, a man…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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