Strong G1085G1085Hγένος
family: kind
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 G1085H appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- kind4
- diversity1
First verses
- Matthew 13:47Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
- Mark 9:29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
- 1 Corinthians 12:10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
- 1 Corinthians 12:28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
- 1 Corinthians 14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
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Word family
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}.)