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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.
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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[fn] of Arphaxad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the account of Terah’s family line. 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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 - This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 - This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 - This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 - Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - in the order of their birth—six names on one stone and the remaining six on the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:1 - This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:18 - This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2 - Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 - The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lekah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth Ashbea,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 - The men listed above by name were leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 - Their relatives by clans, listed according to their genealogical records: Jeiel the chief, Zechariah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel—heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - According to their family genealogy, they had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - Their genealogical record listed the heads of families and 20,200 fighting men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 - All these were heads of families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 - The people from Benjamin, as listed in their genealogy, numbered 956. All these men were heads of their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was their chief according to the genealogical records of their families. In the fortieth year of David’s reign a search was made in the records, and capable men among the Hebronites were found at Jazer in Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
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