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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.
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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 generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that [fn]Yahweh God made earth and heaven.

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 -

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [fn]blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 -

Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 -

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and [fn]became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 -

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 -

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant-woman, bore to Abraham;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 -

Now these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham [fn]became the father of Isaac;

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 kin.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 -

And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kin, and I will [fn]prosper you,’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 -

Now these are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 -

These then are the generations of Esau the father of [fn]the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are 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 an evil report about them to their father.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 -

Thus it happened 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 -

The sons of Korah:

Assir and Elkanah and [fn]Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 -

And Aaron’s son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the second stone, according to their birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by genealogy in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1 -

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

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 told to me, and how you forsook your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:18 -

Now these are the generations of Perez:

Perez became the father of Hezron,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These are their generations:

the firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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.

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 fine linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 -

these, who came into the record by name, were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 -

His [fn]relatives by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah,

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.

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.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 -

They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 -

These were heads of the fathers’ households according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.

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.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief [fn](these Hebronites were investigated according to their generations and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 -

Better is a good name than good oil,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - But I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! 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 offensive meat ever entered my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 -

Lest I strip her naked

And set her forth as on the day when she was born

And make her like a wilderness

And [fn]make her like dry land

And put her to death with thirst.

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