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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)
Dictionary Aids

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, , (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: 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 -

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time[fn] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 -

This is the document containing the family[fn] records of Adam.[fn] On the day that God created man,[fn] he made him in the likeness of God;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 -

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 -

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 -

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 -

These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 -

These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 -

These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 -

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 -

Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 -

These are the family records of Esau (that is, Edom).

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 -

These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 -

These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 -

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. He elevated[fn] the chief cupbearer and the chief baker among his servants.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 -

The sons of Korah:

Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph.

These are the clans of the Korahites.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 -

Aaron’s son Eleazar married

one of the daughters of Putiel,

and she bore him Phinehas.

These are the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 -

“six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone, in the order of their birth.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 -

and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1 -

These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 -

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and your native land, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:18 -

Now these are the family records of Perez:

Perez fathered Hezron,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 -

These are their family records: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2 -

Reaiah son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad.

These were the families of the Zorathites.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 -

The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, the families of the guild[fn] of linen workers at Beth-ashbea,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 -

these mentioned by name were leaders in their families. Their ancestral houses increased greatly.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 -

His relatives by their families as they are recorded in their family records:

Jeiel the chief, Zechariah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 -

Tola’s sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral families.[fn] During David’s reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as valiant warriors in their family records.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 -

Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the family records of their ancestral families, for they had many wives and children.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 -

Their family records were recorded according to the heads of their ancestral families ​— ​20,200 valiant warriors.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 -

These were family heads, chiefs according to their family records; they lived in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 -

and their relatives according to their family records ​— ​956 in all. All these men were heads of their ancestral families.[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 -

These were the heads of the Levite families, chiefs according to their family records; they lived in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 -

From the Hebronites: Jerijah was the head of the Hebronites, according to the family records of his ancestors. A search was made in the fortieth year of David’s reign and strong, capable men were found among them at Jazer in Gilead.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 -

A good name is better than fine perfume,

and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 -

But I said, “Oh, Lord GOD, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 -

“You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hethite.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 -

“As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean[fn] with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 -

Otherwise, I will strip her naked

and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert

and like a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst.

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