genos · kind, race

What it means

genos (γένος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “kind, race”.

Kind, sort; also family, descendants, a people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The ancestors one comes from.
2. The nation or land someone is from.
3. A group of similar things.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• birth ×4
• people ×4
• family ×3
• kinds ×3
• offspring ×3
• kind ×2
• race ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Acts×9
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Philippians×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 13:47

  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet thrown into the sea and gathering fish of every kind;

• Mark 7:26

  Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth; and she was asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

• Mark 9:29

  And he said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but by prayer.”

• Acts 4:6

  and Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of the high-priestly family;

• Acts 4:36

  And Joseph, who was called Barnabas by the apostles (which is, translated, Son of Comfort), a Levite, a Cypriot by birth,

• Acts 7:13

  And on the second visit Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

• Acts 7:19

  He dealt craftily with our people and mistreated our fathers, making them abandon their infants so that they would not survive.

• Acts 13:26

  Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation has been sent.

• Acts 17:28

  For in him we live and move and are, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

• Acts 17:29

  Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine is like gold or silver or stone, a sculpture of human art and imagination.

• Acts 18:2

  And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who had recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome; and he went to them,

• Acts 18:24

  Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures.

• 1 Corinthians 12:10

  to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues.

• 1 Corinthians 12:28

  And God has placed some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administration, kinds of tongues.

• 1 Corinthians 14:10

  There are perhaps so many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26

  on journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

• Galatians 1:14

  and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, being far more zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

• Philippians 3:5

  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

• 1 Peter 2:9

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

• Revelation 22:16

  I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.”