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Lexicon :: Strong's G36 - agenēs

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ἀγενής
Transliteration
agenēs (Key)
Pronunciation
ag-en-ace'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as negative particle) and γένος (G1085)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s)
TR
1x in 1 unique form(s)
LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀγενής agenḗs, ag-en-ace'; from G1 (as negative particle) and G1085; properly, without kin, i.e. (of unknown descent, and by implication) ignoble:—base things.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G36 in the following manner: base things (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G36 in the following manner: base things (1x).
  1. ignoble, coward, mean, base, of no family, that is: low born

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀγενής agenḗs, ag-en-ace'; from G1 (as negative particle) and G1085; properly, without kin, i.e. (of unknown descent, and by implication) ignoble:—base things.
STRONGS G36:
ἀγενής, -εος (-οῦς), , (γένος), opposed to εὐγενής, of no family, a man of base birth, a man of no name or reputation; often used by secular writers, also in the secondary sense ignoble, cowardly, mean, base.
In the N. T. only in 1 Corinthians 1:28, τά ἀγενῆ τοῦ κόσμου i. e. those who among men are held of no account; on the use of a neuter adjective in reference to persons, see Winers Grammar, 178 (167); [Buttmann, 122 (107)].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Corinthians
1:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G36 matches the Greek ἀγενής (agenēs),
which occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:28 - God chose things despised by the world,[fn] things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
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