γένος genos

Greek word for “family” · Strong’s G1085 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

γένος, -ους, τό; (γίγνομαι);

Senses in the lexicon

• family: descendant (15)
• family: kind (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for genos in context, with how often each is used:

• race 4
• offspring 3
• family 2
• native 2
• kind 2
• various kinds 2
• descent 1
• birth 1
• countrymen 1
• nation 1
• kinds 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 4 (2), Acts 7 (2), Acts 17 (2), Acts 18 (2), 1 Corinthians 12 (2), Matthew 13 (1), Mark 7 (1), Mark 9 (1), Acts 13 (1), 1 Corinthians 14 (1)

Forms

• γένος 7
• γένει 5
• γένους 5
• γένη 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with genos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• Ἰωσήφ Iōsēph “Joseph” 2
• ὅμοιος homoios “like” 2
• δεύτερος deuteros “secondly” 2
• γλῶσσα glōssa “tongue” 2
• ὑπάρχω huparchō “be already” 2
• ἀπόστολος apostolos “apostle” 2
• θάλασσα thalassa “sea” 2
• ἐκκλησία ekklēsia “assembly” 2
• δύναμις dunamis “power” 2
• ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 2
• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 2
• γυνή gunē “woman” 2

Key verses

The verses using genos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 13:47 — Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
• Acts 4:36 — And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
• Acts 13:26 — Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
• Acts 17:28 — For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
• Acts 18:24 — And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
• 1 Corinthians 12:10 — To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of…
• 1 Corinthians 12:28 — And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,…
• 2 Corinthians 11:26 — In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils…
• Philippians 3:5 — Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
• 1 Peter 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of…
• Revelation 22:16 — I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.