noun · feminine
sungeneias
Strong’sG4772
kindred, family
stem sungenei-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
συγγένεια, -ας, ἡ
(< συγγενής), [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4772 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoong-ghen'-i-ah
relationship, i.e. (concretely) relatives
Fromfrom G4773;
King Jameskindred.
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
kinship, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ πρώτη σ. primary kinship, Refs 4th c.BC+: with genitive, kin, relationship, with or to another, ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ τὴν τοῦ Ἡρακλέους σ. Refs. with either of them, Refs; ἡ πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους σ. Refs: not properly applied to the relation of parents and children (see. συγγενής Refs 4th c.BC+
2 ties of kindred, family connexion, family influence, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the relation between Athens and Thebes, Decrees cited in Refs 4th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, κατὰ σ. τῆς μορφῆς Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ πρὸς τὸ.. ἱερὸν πῦρ σ. [παντὸς πυρός] Refs 1st c.AD+; of metals, Refs 3rd c.AD+
4 congenital character of disease, Refs 5th c.BC+
II kinsfolk, family, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a single kinsman, Refs 5th c.BC+: collectively, kinsfolk, kinsmen, Refs; ἡ Περικλέους ὅλη οἰκία ἢ ἄλλη σ. NT+5th c.BC+: plural, families, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ σ. ἡ Ἀγανιτέων clan, Refs
II.2 of animals, kind, species, παρὰ τὰς σ. συνδυάζεσθαι Refs 4th c.BC+: generally, kind, class, Refs 3rd 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sungeneias | sungeneiais |
| object accusative | sungeneian1×συγγένειαν | sungeneiain |
| direct address vocative | sungeneiar | sungeneiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sungeneiau2×συγγενείας | sungeneiaiu |
| to, for dative | sungeneia | sungeneiai |
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
sungeneia 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
sungeneian“relatives”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 7:14… ton patron autou kai pantan tan sungeneian en psuchai hebdomēkonta pente,… his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
sungeneiau“relatives”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 1:61… autan hoti Oudenos atō ek tau sungeneiau su hos kalotō te onome houte.… There is no one among your relatives who bears this name.”
Acts 7:3“relatives”… tau gēau su kai ek tau sungeneiau su, kai deuro eis tan gēan …… him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will …