2001 Translation

GENESEŌS, geneseōs

Sounds Like: geh-NEH-seh-ohss

Translations: of birth, of origin, of creation, of generation, of beginning, of lineage

From the root: ΓΕΝΕΣΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the act or process of coming into being, such as birth, origin, or creation. It can also denote a lineage or a record of descent. It is used to describe the beginning of something, like the 'day of birth' or the 'book of Genesis' (meaning 'book of origins').

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1078 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:29

Codex Sinaiticus

• Ecclesiastes — 7:1
• Wisdom — 6:22, 7:5, 14:6, 14:26, 19:10
• Matthew — 1:1
• James — 1:23, 3:6

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 8:42

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:67, 6:152, 19:288
• Book 2 — 2:17
• Book 4 — 3:41
• Book 5 — 10:346
• Book 6 — 6:126
• Book 7 — 14:338
• Book 19 — 8:350
• Book 20 — 8:153, 12:259, 12:267

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 20:1, 43:3, 58:5, 79:4, 85:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:4, 5:1, 31:13, 32:9, 40:20
• Ruth — 2:11
• Judith — 12:18
• Psalms of Solomon — 3:11
• Wisdom — 6:22, 7:5, 14:6, 14:26, 19:10
• Ezekiel — 4:14
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:42
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:35
• Hosea — 2:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 1:1
• James — 1:23, 3:6

From the same root

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

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.

• ΓΕΝΕΣΕΙ — (to) origin, (to) birth, (to) generation, (to) lineage, (to) record, (to) account, (to) creation, (to) nature
• ΓΕΝΕΣΕΙΣ — generations, origins, births, genealogies, records, accounts
• ΓΕΝΕΣΕΣΙΝ — generations, births, origins, genealogies, records of descent
• ΓΕΝΕΣΕΩΝ — of origins, of births, of generations, of genealogies, of records
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙ — (to) birth, (to) origin, (to) generation, (to) creation
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙΝ — birth, a birth, origin, an origin, creation, a creation, generation, a generation, record of descent, a record of descent
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙΟΝ — birth, a birth, origin, a beginning, a generation, a genealogy
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙΣ — origin, source, birth, lineage, creation, a beginning
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙΩ — (to) birth, (to) origin, (to) creation, (to) generation, (to) beginning
• ΓΕΝΕΣΙΩΝ — of births, of origins, of generations, of birthdays, of anniversaries
• ΕΝΕΣΕΙΣ — generations, origins, births, accounts, records, creation, nature
• ΕΝΕΣΕΩΣ — of birth, of origin, of creation, of beginning, of generation
• ΕΝΕΣΙΣ — birth, origin, lineage, generation, creation, nature, beginning
• ΤΗΝΓΕΝΕΣΙΝ — the origin, the birth, the creation, the generation, the record, the account

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