adverb
gnēsiōs
Strong’sG1104
truly, genuinely, honorably, sincerely
stem gnēsiō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form
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.
** γνησίως, adv.,
[in LXX: II Mac 14:8, III Mac 3:23 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1104 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgnay-see'-ose
genuinely, i.e. really
Fromadverb from G1103;
King Jamesnaturally.
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
(γένος) belonging to the race, i. e. lawfully begotten, born in wedlock, νόθον καὶ γνήσιον Refs 8th c.BC+
2 generally, genuine, legitimate, φίλος Refs 6th c.BC+ A; γ. γυναῖκες lawful wives, opposed to παλλακίδες, Refs 5th c.BC+; γ. τῆς Ἑλλάδος true Greeks, Refs 4th c.BC+; μήτηρ τῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγων, of Aphrodite, Refs 2nd c.AD+; γ. ἀρεταί real, unfeigned virtues, Refs 5th c.BC+; γ. ὕμνοι inspired song, Refs 5th c.BC+; of fevers, γ. τριταῖος a genuine tertian, Refs 5th c.BC+; γ. ὄξος genuine vinegar, Refs 4th c.BC+; of writings, genuine, Refs 1st c.AD+ adverb -ίως genuinely, truly, Refs 5th c.BC+; γ. φέρειν bear nobly, Refs 4th c.BC+; lawfully, τοῖς γ. συμβιώσασιν Refs 1st c.BC+
II γνήσια, τά, charges on land, γ. δημόσια Refs 1st 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
gnēsiōs1×
Philippians 2:20oudenon gar echamō isopsuchon hotinos gnēsiōs teim peri vu merimnati,… nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.