noun · feminine
genetas
Strong’sG1079
birth
stem genet-once in the New Testament1 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.
γενετή, -ῆς, ἡ = γενεή, Ion. for γενεά,
[in LXX: Le 25:47 (עֵקֶר מִשְׁפָּחָו), Es 4:17 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1079 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidghen-et-ay
birth
Fromfeminine of a presumed derivative of the base of G1074;
King Jamesbirth.
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
={γενεά} II.3, ἐκ γενετῆς from the hour of birth, Refs 8th c.BC+; later ἀπὸ γενετῆς Refs 4th 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 nominative | genetas | genetais |
| object accusative | genetan | genetain |
| direct address vocative | genetar | genetair |
| of, belonging to genitive | genetau1×γενετῆς | genetaiu |
| to, for dative | geneta | genetai |
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
geneta 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
genetau“birth”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 9:1Kai paragarōntos horata anthrōpon tuflon ek genetau.… He saw a man blind from birth,