adjective
agenem
Strong’sG36
without family, ignoble
stem agen-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀγενής, -ές
(< γένος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G36 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(γενέσθαι) unborn, uncreated, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of no family, ignoble, opposed to ἀγαθός, Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, οὐκ ἀγενεῖς στίχοι Refs 8th c.BC+
III childless, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agenos | agenas | agenem | agenois | agenais | ageneim1×ἀγενῆ |
| object accusative | agenon | agenan | agenoin | agenain | ||
| direct address vocative | agenor | agenar | agenoir | agenair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | agenou | agenau | ageneu | agenoiu | agenaiu | ageneiu |
| to, for dative | ageno | agena | agene | agenoi | agenai | agenei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agen is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ageneim“insignificant”subject or objectdirect plural1×
1 Corinthians 1:28“insignificant”kai teim ageneim tou kosmou kai teim exouthenorēnteim eklegeta …He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that …