2001 Translation

GENOS, genos

Sounds Like: GEH-nos

Translations: race, kind, family, nation, offspring, stock, a race, a kind

From the root: ΓΕΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a group of people or things sharing a common origin, characteristic, or lineage. It can denote a family, a nation, a race, a species, or a type. It is often used to describe a lineage or descent, such as 'the race of Israel' or 'the family of David'. It can also refer to a general category or kind of something.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1085 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:17, 1:165, 1:190, 1:208, 1:250, 1:257, 1:259

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:48, 4:74, 10:37, 12:10

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 2:10, 3:7, 3:13
• Judith — 6:2, 6:5, 11:10
• Tobit — 5:9
• 1 Maccabees — 5:2
• 4 Maccabees — 5:4, 17:10
• Job — 8:8
• Wisdom — 19:21
• Sirach — 13:16
• Isaiah — 43:20
• Jeremiah — 36:32, 38:35, 38:37, 43:31
• Matthew — 17:21
• Mark — 9:29
• Acts of the Apostles — 7:13, 7:19, 17:28, 17:29
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• Revelation — 22:16

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 1:2, 7:30, 7:31, 11:59, 13:69, 14:73, 14:75, 19:129, 22:164, 22:173, 22:178, 22:179, 26:250, 27:252, 28:265, 29:275, 30:278, 33:298, 35:314, 35:316, 35:317, 2:8, 3:28, 3:29, 14:138, 24:193, 25:202, 41:288
• Book Two — 2:8, 3:28, 3:29, 14:138, 24:193, 25:202, 41:288

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:32, 3:75, 3:96, 10:187, 10:192, 11:205, 12:220, 13:234, 13:235, 16:248, 16:253, 18:275, 20:332
• Book 2 — 7:171, 7:179, 7:181, 9:202, 9:203, 9:216, 10:246, 14:300
• Book 3 — 8:192, 8:206, 15:313
• Book 4 — 2:14, 6:114, 6:122, 6:127, 8:192, 8:197, 8:201
• Book 5 — 1:99, 2:125, 11:362
• Book 6 — 1:18, 4:61, 7:146, 13:291, 14:330, 14:331, 14:345, 14:360, 14:361
• Book 7 — 1:6, 2:47, 3:61, 4:83, 12:315, 13:330
• Book 8 — 1:11, 1:15, 3:76, 4:113, 7:200, 11:270, 11:288, 12:299, 12:314, 13:335, 13:361
• Book 9 — 1:3, 5:96, 6:119, 6:123, 7:140, 9:186, 10:211, 10:216, 13:260
• Book 10 — 7:122, 8:151, 9:183, 11:234, 11:237
• Book 11 — 3:70, 3:71, 5:140, 6:207, 6:209, 6:211, 6:277, 7:302
• Book 12 — 2:68, 7:296
• Book 13 — 5:131, 5:172, 9:255, 10:297, 11:311, 16:423, 16:432
• Book 14 — 1:9, 4:78, 16:489
• Book 15 — 2:37, 3:51, 4:102, 6:167, 10:371, 11:384
• Book 16 — 2:36, 6:176, 8:234
• Book 17 — 1:22, 4:78, 5:141, 12:324, 12:330, 12:335, 13:346
• Book 18 — 2:48, 4:103, 5:138, 5:141, 6:167, 6:196, 9:314
• Book 19 — 1:17
• Book 20 — 6:123, 7:142, 8:163, 8:173, 11:252

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 3:16, 7:4, 23:2, 27:1, 30:10
• Book Two — 5:13, 7:1, 7:13, 8:44, 14:38, 17:14, 18:26, 20:11
• Book Four — 3:21, 3:33, 4:2, 9:18, 9:50
• Book Five — 10:24, 13:6
• Book Six — 1:54, 3:25, 5:1
• Book Seven — 3:7, 6:37, 8:17

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 43:1, 46:1, 50:1, 51:1, 53:1, 60:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:3, 0:4, 0:6
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 11:5, 23:1, 23:5, 32:2, 55:3, 63:2, 76:2, 78:4, 89:1, 89:3, 93:1, 95:1, 100:3, 102:4, 102:6, 106:1, 116:3, 117:4, 117:5, 120:5, 123:9, 130:3, 135:3, 139:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:1, 1:2, 3:16, 26:126, 39:196, 54:278, 68:382, 76:427

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 1:1

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:15, 6:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:11, 1:12, 1:21, 1:24, 1:25, 6:20, 7:14, 8:19, 11:6, 25:17, 34:16, 35:29
• Exodus — 1:9
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:30
• Esther — 2:10, 3:7, 3:13
• Judith — 6:2, 6:5, 11:10
• Tobit — 5:9, 5:12
• 1 Maccabees — 5:2
• 2 Maccabees — 5:22, 7:16, 7:28, 7:38, 8:9, 12:31, 14:8
• 3 Maccabees — 1:3
• 4 Maccabees — 5:4
• Psalms of Solomon — 7:8
• Job — 8:8
• Wisdom — 19:21
• Sirach — 13:16
• Isaiah — 43:20
• Jeremiah — 36:32, 38:35, 38:37, 43:31
• Baruch — 2:15
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 6:28

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 8 — 2:7
• Parable 9 — 1:8, 19:1, 24:1, 30:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 9:29
• Acts — 7:13, 7:19, 17:28, 17:29
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• Revelation — 22:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΕΝΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΓΕΝΕΙ — (to) a race, (to) a kind, (to) a family, (to) offspring, (to) a nation, in kind, in respect to kind
• ΓΕΝΕΙΑ — race, family, lineage, kind, a kind, nation, a nation
• ΓΕΝΕΩΣ — of a race, of a kind, of a family, of a nation, of a stock, of a generation, of a lineage, of a birth
• ΓΕΝΙ — of race, of family, of kind, of stock, of offspring, of nation, of birth
• ΓΕΝΟΥΣ — of race, of kind, of family, of nation, of offspring, of stock

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