syngenēs · relative

What it means

syngenēs (συγγενής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “relative”.

Kinsman.

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. Someone from the same family or people.

From Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• relatives ×9
• relative ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Luke×5
• John×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×4

• Mark 6:4

  And Jesus was saying to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his house.”

• Luke 1:36

  And look, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;

• Luke 1:58

  And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

• Luke 2:44

  But supposing him to be in the caravan, they went a day’s journey and were searching for him among the relatives and the acquaintances;

• Luke 14:12

  And he was also saying to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not call your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

• Luke 21:16

  And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some of you,

• John 18:26

  One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, says, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”

• Acts 10:24

  And on the following day he entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was expecting them, having called together his relatives and close friends.

• Romans 9:3

  For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,

• Romans 16:7

  Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in the Messiah before me.

• Romans 16:11

  Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

• Romans 16:21

  Timothy, my coworker, greets you, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.