Strong G1085G1085Gγένος
family: descendant
One of the 2 senses of Strong G1085
- Transliteration
- genos
- Pronunciation
- ghen'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G1096; kin (abstractly or concretely literally or figuratively individually or collectively): - born country (-man) diversity generation kind (-red) nation offspring stock.
Detailed definition
γένος, -ους, τό
(γίγνομαι), [in LXX for עַם, מִין, זֶרַע, etc.;]
1. family: Act.4:6 7:13 13:26.
2. offspring: Act.17:28, 29 Rev.22:16.
3. race, nation; Mrk.7:28, Act.4:36 7:19 18:2, 24, 2Co.11:26, Php.3:5, Gal.1:14, 1Pe.2:9.
4. kind, sort, class: Mat.13:47 17:21, Rec., Mrk.9:29, 1Co.12:10, 28 14:10.
† (AS)
(γίγνομαι), [in LXX for עַם, מִין, זֶרַע, etc.;]
1. family: Act.4:6 7:13 13:26.
2. offspring: Act.17:28, 29 Rev.22:16.
3. race, nation; Mrk.7:28, Act.4:36 7:19 18:2, 24, 2Co.11:26, Php.3:5, Gal.1:14, 1Pe.2:9.
4. kind, sort, class: Mat.13:47 17:21, Rec., Mrk.9:29, 1Co.12:10, 28 14:10.
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1085G appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- offspring3
- bear2
- nation2
- stock2
- kindred2
- country1
- countrymen1
- generation1
First verses
- Mark 7:26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
- Acts 4:6And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
- Acts 4:36And 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 7:13And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
- Acts 13:26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
- Acts 17:28For 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 17:29Forasmuch 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 18:2And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
- Acts 18:24And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
- 2 Corinthians 11:26In 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 in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
- Galatians 1:14And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
- Philippians 3:5Circumcised 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 2:9But 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 darkness into his marvellous light:
- Revelation 22:16I 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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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
γένος, εος
or ους, τό, race, stock, kin, ἀμφοτέροισιν ὁμὸν γ. ἠδ᾽ ἴα πάτρη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.354; αἷμά τε καὶ γ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.583; ὑμετέρου δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι γένεος βασιλεύτερον 15.533; γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.209; γ. ἀπόλωλε τοκήων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.62; ὅθι τοι γένος ἐστὶ καὶ αὐτῇ 6.35: frequently _absolutely_ in _accusative_, ἐξ Ἰθάκης γένος εἰμί)] from Ithaca I am by race,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.267, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.544, 896, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 239, etc.)]; in Attic dialect frequently with the Article, ποδαπὸς τὸ γένος εἶ ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216a)]: so in dative, γένει πολῖται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.24)]; γένει υἱός, opposed to an adopted son, [Refs ([prev. author] 44.2)]; οἱ ἐν γένει, ={συγγενεῖς}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1430; οἱ ἔξω γένους [prev. author] “Ant.” 660; οὐδὲν ἐν γένει [prev. author] “OT” 1016; γένει προσήκειν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.1; γένει ἀπωτέρω εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.13: in _genitive_, γένους εἶναί τινος)] to be of his race, ἄναγνος καὶ γένους τοῦ Λαΐου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1383, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.9)]; ἐγγυτέρω, ἐγγύτατα γένους, nearer, next of kin, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 388.)]
2 direct descent, opposed to collateral relationship, γένος γάρ, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ συγγένεια [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33)]; αἱ κατὰ γένος βασιλεῖαι hereditary monarchies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a16, 1313a10.)]
II offspring, even of a single descendant, σὸν γ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.124, 21.186; ἡ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔην θεῖον γ. οὐδ᾽ ἀνθρώπων 6.180; ἁμὸν Οἰδίπου γ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 654)]; Διὸς γ., of Bacchus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1117 (Lyric poetry); Τέκμησσα, δύσμορον γ. [prev. author] “Aj.” 784.)]
II.2 collectively, offspring, posterity, ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὸ γ. τὸ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126; ἐξώλη ποιεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ γ. καὶ οἰκίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.71.)]
III generally, race, of beings, θεῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 960; ἡμιθέων γ. ἀνδρῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.23)]; ἡμιόνων, βοῶν γ., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.852, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.212)]; ἵππειον γ., i.e. mules, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 342; ἰχθύων πλωτὸν γ. [prev. author] “fragment” 941.9.)]
III.b clan, house, family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.125, etc.; Φρὺξ μὲν γενεῇ, γένεος δὲ τοῦ βασιληΐου [prev. work] 35)]; τοὺς ἀπὸ γένους men of noble family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 21; ἱερεὺς κατὰ γ. “IG” 5(1).497, +others; also ἱέρεια ἀπὸ γένους, διὰ γένους, [prev. work]607.29,602; especially at Athens and elsewhere as a subdivision of the φρατρία, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ath. fragment” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.120e, etc.)]; = Latin gens, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 1.)]
III.c tribe, as a subdivision of ἔθνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 101.)]
III.d caste, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.164.)]
III.e of animals, breed, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.29.)]
III.2 age, generation, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.245)]; γ. χρύσεον, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 109)]: hence, age, time of life, γένει ὕστερος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.215, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408a27.)]
IV sex, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 172.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 189d)]; gender, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1407b7, 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.214, etc.)]
V class, sort, kind, τὰ γ. τῶν κυνῶν ἐστι δισσά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.1; τὸ φιλόσοφον γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 501e)]; τὸ τῶν γεωργῶν [γ.] [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 17c, compare “R.” 434b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1329a27; τῶν ἰχθυοπωλῶν γ. 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 7.4; τὸ τῶν παρασίτων γ. Nicolaus Rhetor Comedy texts 1.1, etc.)]
V.2 in Logic, opposed to εἶδος (species), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 129c, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 102a31, 102b12, +others; τὰ γ. εἰς εἴδη πλείω καὶ διαφέροντα διαιρεῖται [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1059b36.)]
V.3 in the animal kingdom, τὰ μέγιστα γ., = the modern [Refs (“Classes”)], such as birds, fishes, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 490b7, compare 505b26)]; so in the vegetable kingdom, γένη τὰ μέγιστα, ={σιτώδη, χεδροπά} and ἀνώνυμα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.1.)]
V.3.b genus, τὸ τῶν καρκίνων γ., τὸ τῶν περιστερῶν γ., etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 487b17, 488a4; τῶν δένδρων καὶ τῶν φυτῶν εἴδη πλείω τυγχάνει καθ᾽ ἕκαστον γένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.14.3; τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους [πίτυς] καὶ πεύκη 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.69, +others)]
V.3.c γένος τι a species of plant, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.13)]; so later, γένη, = crops, ἄλλοις γένεσι τοῖς πρὸς πυρὸν διοικουμένοις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 66.43, +others (2nd c.BC))]; οἷς ἐὰν αἱρῶμαι γένεσι πλὴν κνήκου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PAmh.” 2.91.15 (2nd c.AD))]; produce, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (POxy. 727.20 (2nd c.AD))]; materials, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work]54.16 (3rd c.AD))]; ἐν γένεσιν in kind, opposed to ἐν ἀργυρίῳ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 21.10 (2nd c.AD).)]
V.4 τὰ γ. the elements, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 54b)]. (Cf. Sanskrit jánas, genitive jánasas; Latin genus, -eris, see at {γίγνομαι}.)
or ους, τό, race, stock, kin, ἀμφοτέροισιν ὁμὸν γ. ἠδ᾽ ἴα πάτρη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.354; αἷμά τε καὶ γ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.583; ὑμετέρου δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι γένεος βασιλεύτερον 15.533; γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.209; γ. ἀπόλωλε τοκήων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.62; ὅθι τοι γένος ἐστὶ καὶ αὐτῇ 6.35: frequently _absolutely_ in _accusative_, ἐξ Ἰθάκης γένος εἰμί)] from Ithaca I am by race,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.267, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.544, 896, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 239, etc.)]; in Attic dialect frequently with the Article, ποδαπὸς τὸ γένος εἶ ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216a)]: so in dative, γένει πολῖται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.24)]; γένει υἱός, opposed to an adopted son, [Refs ([prev. author] 44.2)]; οἱ ἐν γένει, ={συγγενεῖς}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1430; οἱ ἔξω γένους [prev. author] “Ant.” 660; οὐδὲν ἐν γένει [prev. author] “OT” 1016; γένει προσήκειν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.1; γένει ἀπωτέρω εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.13: in _genitive_, γένους εἶναί τινος)] to be of his race, ἄναγνος καὶ γένους τοῦ Λαΐου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1383, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.9)]; ἐγγυτέρω, ἐγγύτατα γένους, nearer, next of kin, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 388.)]
2 direct descent, opposed to collateral relationship, γένος γάρ, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ συγγένεια [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33)]; αἱ κατὰ γένος βασιλεῖαι hereditary monarchies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a16, 1313a10.)]
II offspring, even of a single descendant, σὸν γ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.124, 21.186; ἡ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔην θεῖον γ. οὐδ᾽ ἀνθρώπων 6.180; ἁμὸν Οἰδίπου γ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 654)]; Διὸς γ., of Bacchus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1117 (Lyric poetry); Τέκμησσα, δύσμορον γ. [prev. author] “Aj.” 784.)]
II.2 collectively, offspring, posterity, ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὸ γ. τὸ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126; ἐξώλη ποιεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ γ. καὶ οἰκίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.71.)]
III generally, race, of beings, θεῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 960; ἡμιθέων γ. ἀνδρῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.23)]; ἡμιόνων, βοῶν γ., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.852, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.212)]; ἵππειον γ., i.e. mules, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 342; ἰχθύων πλωτὸν γ. [prev. author] “fragment” 941.9.)]
III.b clan, house, family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.125, etc.; Φρὺξ μὲν γενεῇ, γένεος δὲ τοῦ βασιληΐου [prev. work] 35)]; τοὺς ἀπὸ γένους men of noble family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 21; ἱερεὺς κατὰ γ. “IG” 5(1).497, +others; also ἱέρεια ἀπὸ γένους, διὰ γένους, [prev. work]607.29,602; especially at Athens and elsewhere as a subdivision of the φρατρία, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ath. fragment” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.120e, etc.)]; = Latin gens, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 1.)]
III.c tribe, as a subdivision of ἔθνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 101.)]
III.d caste, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.164.)]
III.e of animals, breed, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.29.)]
III.2 age, generation, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.245)]; γ. χρύσεον, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 109)]: hence, age, time of life, γένει ὕστερος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.215, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408a27.)]
IV sex, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 172.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 189d)]; gender, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1407b7, 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.214, etc.)]
V class, sort, kind, τὰ γ. τῶν κυνῶν ἐστι δισσά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.1; τὸ φιλόσοφον γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 501e)]; τὸ τῶν γεωργῶν [γ.] [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 17c, compare “R.” 434b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1329a27; τῶν ἰχθυοπωλῶν γ. 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 7.4; τὸ τῶν παρασίτων γ. Nicolaus Rhetor Comedy texts 1.1, etc.)]
V.2 in Logic, opposed to εἶδος (species), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 129c, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 102a31, 102b12, +others; τὰ γ. εἰς εἴδη πλείω καὶ διαφέροντα διαιρεῖται [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1059b36.)]
V.3 in the animal kingdom, τὰ μέγιστα γ., = the modern [Refs (“Classes”)], such as birds, fishes, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 490b7, compare 505b26)]; so in the vegetable kingdom, γένη τὰ μέγιστα, ={σιτώδη, χεδροπά} and ἀνώνυμα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.1.)]
V.3.b genus, τὸ τῶν καρκίνων γ., τὸ τῶν περιστερῶν γ., etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 487b17, 488a4; τῶν δένδρων καὶ τῶν φυτῶν εἴδη πλείω τυγχάνει καθ᾽ ἕκαστον γένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.14.3; τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους [πίτυς] καὶ πεύκη 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.69, +others)]
V.3.c γένος τι a species of plant, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.13)]; so later, γένη, = crops, ἄλλοις γένεσι τοῖς πρὸς πυρὸν διοικουμένοις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 66.43, +others (2nd c.BC))]; οἷς ἐὰν αἱρῶμαι γένεσι πλὴν κνήκου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PAmh.” 2.91.15 (2nd c.AD))]; produce, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (POxy. 727.20 (2nd c.AD))]; materials, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work]54.16 (3rd c.AD))]; ἐν γένεσιν in kind, opposed to ἐν ἀργυρίῳ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 21.10 (2nd c.AD).)]
V.4 τὰ γ. the elements, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 54b)]. (Cf. Sanskrit jánas, genitive jánasas; Latin genus, -eris, see at {γίγνομαι}.)