adjective
eugenos
Strong’sG2104
of noble birth, noble
stem eugen-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
εὐγενής, -ές
(< εὖ, γένος), [in LXX: Jb 1:3 (גָּדוֹל), II Mac 10:13 R, IV Mac 6:5 9:13, 23, 27 10:3, 15 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2104 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
in Refs 8th c.BC+ εὐηγενής (which see), and in Refs ἠϋγενής: (γένος):— well-born, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ μὲν ἐστίχθαι εὐγενὲς κέκριται being tattooed is esteemed a mark of nobility, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Trag. etc. with the connotation noble-minded, generous (more properly γενναῖος,Refs 5th c.BC+; διαφέρει φύσις γενναίου σκύλακος.. νεανίσκου εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of animals, high-bred, ἵππος Refs 6th c.BC+; of plants, of a good sort, Refs 4th c.BC+: so in comparative, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, of a wife, ὥσπερ εὐγενῆ χώραν ἐντεκνώσασθαι παρασχεῖν Refs 1st c.AD+
4 of outward form, noble, δέρη, πρόσωπον, Refs 5th c.BC+; of style, τὸ εὐ. τῆς λέξεως Refs 1st c.BC+
II adverb -νῶς nobly, bravely, κατθανοῦμεν Refs 5th 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 | eugenos1×εὐγενὴς | eugenas | eugenem | eugenois1×εὐγενεῖς | eugenais | eugeneim |
| object accusative | eugenon | eugenan | eugenoin | eugenain | ||
| direct address vocative | eugenor | eugenar | eugenoir | eugenair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | eugenou | eugenau | eugeneu | eugenoiu | eugenaiu | eugeneiu |
| to, for dative | eugeno | eugena | eugene | eugenoi | eugenai | eugenei |
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
eugen 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
eugenos“of noble birth”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 19:12legata oun; Anthrōpos tinos eugenos poreuita eis chōran makran labara heauto …So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to …
eugenois“of noble birth”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Corinthians 1:26… sarkan, ouk pollois dunatois, ouk pollois eugenois;… many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
eugenoterois1×
Acts 17:11“receptive”houtois de ale eugenoterois toiu en Thessalonika, hotinois dechela ton …Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with …