genesias

Strong’sG1078

birth, lineage

stem genesi-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 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.

γένεσις, -εως, ἡ

(< γίγνομαι), [in LXX chiefly for תֹּולֵדֹת;]

1. origin, lineage: βίβλος γενέσεως (as in Ge 2:4a 5:1), Mt 1:1.

2. birth: Mt 1:18, Lk 1:14 (Rec. γέννησις); πρόσωπον τῆς γ., face of his birth ("what God made him to be," Hort., in l.), Ja 1:23; ὁ τροχὸς τῆς γ., the wheel (course) of birth or creation ("the wheel of man's nature according to its original Divine purpose," Hort), Ja 3:6.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1078 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidghen'-es-is

nativity; figuratively, nature

Fromfrom the same as G1074;

King Jamesgeneration, nature(-ral).

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

γένεσις, εως, ἡ,
(γενέσθαι) origin, source, Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν Refs 8th c.BC+; Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γ. πάντεσσι τέτυκταιRefs 5th c.BC+; beginning, in dual, τοῖν γενεσέοιν ἡ ἑτέρα Refs
II manner of birth, Refs 5th c.BC+; race, descent, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ γένεσιν, opposed to καθ᾽ υἱοθεσίαν, Refs
II.2 Astrology texts, nativity, geniture, Refs 1st c.AD+: hence, lot, fortune, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III production, generation, coming into being, opposed to ὄλεθρος, Refs 4th c.BC+; more usually opposed to φθορά, Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, title of work by Refs 4th c.BC+: generally, formation, πύου Refs 5th c.BC+; origination, making, ἱματίων, περὶ τὰ ἀμφιέσματα, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 ={τὸ γίγνεσθαι}, becoming, opposed to οὐσία,Refs 5th c.AD+
IV concrete, creation, i.e. all created things, Refs 5th c.BC+
V race, kind or sort of animals, Refs 5th c.BC+; family, δίδυμος γ. of the Spartan kings, Refs
VI generation, age, Refs; κατὰ περίστασιν τῆς γ. according to the circumstances of his time, Refs 3rd c.AD+
VII παιδοπόρος γ. genitalia muliebria, Refs 1st c.AD+
VIII in Mathematics texts, generation of a figure, Refs 3rd c.AD+
VIII.b origin of a spiral, Refs; ἡ ἐν γ. εὐθεῖα the initial line, Refs

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.

birth2×genealogy1×life1×natural1×

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 nominative	genesias1×γένεσις	genesiais
object accusative	genesian	genesiain
direct address vocative	genesiar	genesiair
of, belonging to genitive	genesiau3×γενέσεως	genesiaiu
to, for dative	genesia1×γενέσει	genesiai

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

genesistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

genesia 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.

genesiem — γενέσια, a birthday celebration

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

genesias“birth”subjectnominative singular1×

Matthew 1:18Tou de Iēsu christou tas genesias houtōs ate. mnēsteuirantau tau mētērau autou …This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His …

genesiau“life”of, belonging togenitive singular3×

Matthew 1:1Biblas genesiau Iēsu christou huiou David huiou Abraam.This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of …

James 1:23“natural”… eoikatē andro katanoarōnto tem prosōpem tau genesiau autou en esoptre,… who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

James 3:6… sōmem kai flogizarōntas ton trochon tau genesiau kai flogizorōntas hupo tau geennau.… person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set …

genesia“birth”to, fordative singular1×

Luke 1:14… kai agalliasias, kai pollois epi ta genesia autou chairili;… and many will rejoice at his birth,