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Lexicon :: Strong's G1078 - genesis

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γένεσις
Transliteration
genesis (Key)
Pronunciation
ghen'-es-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as γενεά (G1074)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:682,117

Strong’s Definitions

γένεσις génesis, ghen'-es-is; from the same as G1074; nativity; figuratively, nature:—generation, nature(-ral).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G1078 in the following manner: generation (1x), natural (1x), nature (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G1078 in the following manner: generation (1x), natural (1x), nature (1x).

  1. source, origin

    1. a book of one's lineage, i.e. in which his ancestry or progeny are enumerated

  2. used of birth, nativity

  3. of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life

    1. the wheel of life (Jas 3:6), other explain it, the wheel of human origin which as soon as men are born begins to run, i.e. its course of life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
γένεσις génesis, ghen'-es-is; from the same as G1074; nativity; figuratively, nature:—generation, nature(-ral).
STRONGS G1078:
γένεσις, -εως, ἡ, (ΓΕΝΩ [Curtius, § 128]), in Greek writings for the first time in Homer, Iliad 14, 201 [cf. 246];
1. source, origin: βίβλος γενέσεώς τινος a book of one's lineage, i. e. in which his ancestry or his progeny are enumerated (equivalent to תּוֹלְדוֹת סֵפֶר, Genesis 5:1, etc.) [Matthew 1:1].
2. used of birth, nativity, in Matthew 1:18 and Luke 1:14, for Rec. γέννησις (ἡμέραι τῆς γενέσεώς μου equivalent to ἀφ’ οὗ ἐγεννήθην, Judith 12:18 cf. 20); πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως his native (natural) face, James 1:23.
3. of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life: ὁ τροχὸς τῆς γενέσεως the wheel [cf. English "machinery"] of life, James 3:6 (cf. Grimm on Sap. vii. 5); but others explain it the wheel of human origin which as soon as men are born begins to run, i. e. the course [cf. English "round"] of life.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
5:1
Matthew
1:1; 1:18
Luke
1:14
James
1:23; 3:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1078 matches the Greek γένεσις (genesis),
which occurs 39 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - [fn]This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [fn]blameless in his [fn]time; Noah walked with God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and [fn]became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 - Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham [fn]became the father of Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, [fn]leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will [fn]prosper you,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 - Now these are the records of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 - These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of [fn]the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 - Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and [fn]Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Aaron’s son Eleazar [fn]married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the [fn]other stone, according to their birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1 - Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:18 - Now these are the generations of Perez: to Perez [fn]was born Hezron,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These are their genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2 - Reaiah the son of Shobal [fn]became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 - The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 - these mentioned by name were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 - His [fn]kinsmen by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 [fn]troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 - These were heads of the fathers’ households according to their generations, chief men [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 - and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men, [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief [fn](these Hebronites were investigated according to their genealogies and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and men of outstanding capability were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than a good ointment,
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - But I said, “Ah, Lord [fn]GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - “As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day when she was born.
I will also make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land
And slay her with thirst.
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