2001 Translation

GĒGENEIS, gēgeneis

Sounds Like: GAY-geh-nays

Translations: earth-born, native, indigenous, a native, an earth-born one

From the root: ΓΗΓΕΝΗΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word refers to someone or something that is 'earth-born' or 'native to the land'. It can be used to describe people who are indigenous to a particular place, or in a more mythical sense, beings that originated directly from the earth. It is often used as a noun to refer to 'natives' or 'earth-born ones'.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G1092 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:27, 10:65

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 48:3
• Proverbs — 9:18

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Psalms — 48:3
• Proverbs — 9:18

From the same root

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

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.

• ΓΗΓΕΝΕΣΙΝ — to the earth-born, to the natives, to the inhabitants of the land
• ΓΗΓΕΝΟΥΣ — earth-born, of the earth, earthly, of an earth-born one
• ΓΗΓΕΝΩΝ — of earth-born, of earth-born ones, of mortals

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