γένεσις
genesis · origin, birth, lineage
Greek word · Strong’s number G1078 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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genesis (γένεσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “origin, birth, lineage”.
Origin, birth; also the family line someone comes from. The name of the book of Genesis comes from it.
How to say it
ge·ne·sis
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
- Where someone comes from, lineage.
- Coming into the world.
- The course of life, from its start.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- origin ×2
- birth ×1
- existence ×1
- he was born with ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 1:1
The book of the origin of Jesus the Messiah, son of David, son of Abraham.
- Matthew 1:18
Now the origin of Jesus the Messiah was like this: when his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
- Luke 1:14
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth;
- James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking closely at the face he was born with in a mirror;
- James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of existence, and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.