Lexicon genesis: origin, birth Original Word: γένεσις, εως, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: genesis Phonetic Spelling: (ghen'-es-is) Short Definition: birth, lineage Definition: birth, lineage, descent. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ginomaiDefinitionorigin, birth NASB Translationbirth (2), genealogy (1), life (1), natural (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1078: γένεσιςγένεσις, γενέσεως, ἡ ( ΓΑΝΩ ( Curtius, § 128)), in Greek writings for the first time in Homer, Iliad 14, 201 (cf. 246); 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, Genesis 5:1, etc.) (Matthew 1:1). 2. used of birth, nativity, in Matthew 1:18 and Luke 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, James 1:23. 3. of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life: ὁ τροχός τῆς γενέσεως the wheel (cf. English machinery) of life, James 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.
Strong's origin, birth, genealogy From the same as genea; nativity; figuratively, nature -- generation, nature(-ral). see GREEK genea |
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