noun · neuter
genesiem
Strong’sG1077
a birthday celebration
stem genesi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
* γενέσια, -ων, τά, neut. pl. of adj. -ιος, -ον, relating to birth (< γένεσις);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1077 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidghen-es'-ee-ah
birthday ceremonies
Fromneuter plural of a derivative of G1078;
King Jamesbirthday.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={γενέθλιος},{θεός} Refs 1st c.AD+; epithet of Posidon, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II Γενέσιον, τό, shrine of Posidon Γ., Paus. [prev. cited]
III γενέσια, τά, day kept in memory of the birthday of the dead, Refs 5th c.BC+; to be distinguished from γενέθλια birthday-feast, though used for it in NT+5th c.BC+; so ἡ γ. ἡμέρα, ={ἡ γενέθλιος}, Refs; ἡ γ. alone, Refs; τῇ τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ ἐμμήνῳ γ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | genesiem | genesieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | genesieu | genesieiu |
| to, for dative | genesie | genesiei2×γενεσίοις |
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
genesie 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
genesiei“birthday”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 14:6genesiei de generantei tou Hērōdou orcheta tas …On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced …
Mark 6:21… generantau hēmerau eukairau hote Hērōdos tei genesiei autou deipnem poiata toi megistanoi autou …On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a …