Lexicon agenés: unborn, of no family, ignoble Original Word: ἀγενής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: agenés Phonetic Spelling: (ag-en-ace') Short Definition: without family, ignoble Definition: lit: without family, hence: ignoble, base. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and genosDefinitionunborn, of no family, ignoble NASB Translationbase things (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 36: ἀγενήςἀγενής, (εος ( (οῦς), ὁ, ἡ ( γένος), opposed to εὐγενής, of no family, a man of base birth, a man of no name or reputation; often used by secular writers, also in the secondary sense ignoble, cowardly, mean, base. In the N. T. only in 1 Corinthians 1:28, τά ἀγενῆ τοῦ κόσμου i. e. those who among men are held of no account; on the use of a neuter adjective in reference to persons, see Winers Grammar, 178 (167); ( Buttmann, 122 (107)).
Strong's base things. From a (as negative particle) and genos; properly, without kin, i.e. (of unknown descent, and by implication) ignoble -- base things. see GREEK a see GREEK genos |
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