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Strong's G1085 γένος (genos)

Genos means “born” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1085 — bildad in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1085
Language Greek
Linked Usages 113
Books 29

Strong's G1085 Quick Answer

Strong's G1085 γένος (genos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. genos (ghen'-os) n. 1. kin {abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective} It has 113 linked Bible usages across 29 books. Visible English usage signals include born and country. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
genos (ghen'-os) n. 1. kin {abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective}
Usage
113 linked usages
Books
29 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
born and country

Meaning and Definition

genos (ghen'-os) n. 1. kin {abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective} [from G1096] KJV: born, country(-man), diversity, generation, kind(-red), nation, offspring, stock Root(s): G1096

Original Word
γένος
Transliteration
genos
Derivation
Root: γίνομαι R1: 1096
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1085. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

family: descendant

Usage: 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)

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How Strong's G1085 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render genos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

born Acts 18:2 country Acts 4:36

How Strong's G1085 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 47 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1085 (γένος) appears 104 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1085 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1085 in the New Testament

21 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 13:47 KJV

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

Matthew 17:21 KJV

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 7:26 KJV

The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Strong's G1085 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 1:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.

Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good.

Strong's G1085 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

45 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:30 Septuagint / Brenton

Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.

Judith 5:10 Septuagint / Brenton

But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.

Judith 6:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied among us as today, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?

Usage Excerpts

First 113 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1085.

Genesis 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good.
Genesis 1:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.
Genesis 1:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.
Genesis 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
Genesis 7:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,
Genesis 8:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.
Genesis 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
Genesis 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.
Genesis 19:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.
Genesis 25:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; and he failed and died, and was added to his fathers.
Genesis 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou done this to us? one of my kindred within a little had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought a sin of ignorance upon us.
Genesis 34:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race.
Genesis 35:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Genesis 40:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the upper basket there was the work of the baker of every kind which Pharaoh eats; and the fowls of the air ate them out of the basket that was on my head.
Exodus 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we:
Exodus 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, and questioned, men saying, Why have ye not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, today also?
Leviticus 20:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, they shall bear their sin.
Leviticus 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart for a flux, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their generation.
Leviticus 21:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.
Leviticus 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.
Leviticus 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say to Aaron, A man of thy tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of his God.
Joshua 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the people of Israel; and they feared him, as they did Moses, as long as he lived.
Joshua 11:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Anakim out of the hill country, from Hebron and from Debir, and from Anab, and from all the race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Judah with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.
2 Chronicles 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And beneath it the likeness of calves, they compass it round about: ten cubits compass the laver round about, they cast the calves two rows in their casting,
2 Chronicles 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and four hundred golden bells for the two nets, and two rows of pomegranates in each net, to cover the two embossed rims of the chapiters which are upon the pillars.
2 Chronicles 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they buried him in the sepulcher which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled it with spices and all kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.
Esther 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Esther discovered not her family nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her not to tell.
Esther 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to slay in one day the race of Mordecai: and the lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month which is Adar.
Esther 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Haman related the events that had befallen him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends: and his friends and his wife said to him, If Mordecai be of the race of the Jews, and thou hast begun to be humbled before him, thou wilt assuredly fall, and thou wilt not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.
Job 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For ask of the former generation, And search diligently among the race of our fathers
Job 40:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And do the nations feed upon him, And the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
Isaiah 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 42:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will strengthen thee: and I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 43:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,
Isaiah 49:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.
Jeremiah 36:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit Shemaiah, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see it.
Jeremiah 38:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
At that time, saith the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.
Jeremiah 38:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.
Jeremiah 38:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.
Jeremiah 43:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants: and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they hearkened not.
Jeremiah 48:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah to Mizpah: and they ate bread there together.
Daniel 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
at what hour ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and every kind of music, ye shall fall down and worship the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
Daniel 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Daniel 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music,
Daniel 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?
Matthew 13:47 New Testament, KJV
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Matthew 17:21 New Testament, KJV
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Mark 7:26 New Testament, KJV
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Mark 9:29 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Acts 4:6 New Testament, KJV
And 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 4:36 New Testament, KJV
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 7:13 New Testament, KJV
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
Acts 7:19 New Testament, KJV
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Acts 13:26 New Testament, KJV
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 New Testament, KJV
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 New Testament, KJV
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 18:2 New Testament, KJV
And 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 18:24 New Testament, KJV
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
1 Corinthians 12:10 New Testament, KJV
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 tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:28 New Testament, KJV
And 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 14:10 New Testament, KJV
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
2 Corinthians 11:26 New Testament, KJV
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 in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
Galatians 1:14 New Testament, KJV
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Philippians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
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 New Testament, KJV
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 darkness into his marvellous light;
Revelation 22:16 New Testament, KJV
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.
1 Esdras 1:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
Judith 5:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.
Judith 6:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied among us as today, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
Judith 6:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou, Achior, a hireling of Ammon, which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt.
Judith 6:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.
Judith 8:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But we know none other God, therefore we trust that he will not despise us, nor any of our nation.
Judith 8:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing, which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.
Judith 9:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou.
Judith 11:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, O lord and governor, reject not his word; but lay it up in thy heart, for it is true: for our nation shall not be punished, neither can the sword prevail against them, except they sin against their God.
Judith 12:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Holofernes said unto her, If thy provision should fail, how should we give thee the like? for there be none with us of thy nation.
Judith 13:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things, because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said, So be it, so be it.
Judith 15:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they came unto her, they blessed her with one accord, and said unto her, Thou art the exaltation of Israel, thou art the great glory of Israel, thou art the great rejoicing of our nation:
Judith 16:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, In putting fire and worms in their flesh; And they shall feel them, and weep forever.
Judith 16:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasseh her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
Tobit 1:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when we were carried away captives to Nineveh, all my brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the Gentiles.
Tobit 1:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the time of Shalmaneser I gave many alms to my brethren, and gave my bread to the hungry,
Tobit 5:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.
1 Maccabees 3:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:
1 Maccabees 5:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
1 Maccabees 12:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It is found in writing, that the Lacedaemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:
2 Maccabees 1:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
2 Maccabees 5:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
2 Maccabees 6:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
2 Maccabees 7:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;
2 Maccabees 7:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.
2 Maccabees 7:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which is justly brought upon all our nation, may cease.
2 Maccabees 8:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
2 Maccabees 12:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
they gave them thanks, desiring them to be friendly still unto them: and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks approaching.
2 Maccabees 14:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
first, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the good of mine own citizens: for all our nation is in no small misery through the unadvised dealing of them aforesaid.
2 Maccabees 14:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
3 Maccabees 1:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But Dositheus, called the son of Drimylus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
3 Maccabees 3:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
3 Maccabees 3:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;
3 Maccabees 6:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou destroyedst Pharaoh, with his host of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless hardihood and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of thy mercy upon the race of Israel, thou didst overwhelm him with his proud army.
3 Maccabees 6:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, thou who hatest insolence; thou who dost abound in mercy; thou who art the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless Gentiles.
3 Maccabees 6:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the heathen cower before thy invincible might today, O glorious One, who hast all power to save the race of Jacob.
3 Maccabees 7:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy God, and the law of God.
4 Maccabees 5:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him.
4 Maccabees 15:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!
4 Maccabees 17:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, Serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, That thy children might be kept without hurt:
Wisdom of Solomon 19:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But afterward they saw a new generation of fowls, When, being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, Though they walked therein; Neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat, that was of nature apt to melt.
Wisdom of Sirach 13:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All flesh consorteth according to kind, And a man will cleave to his like.
Baruch 2:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1085, grouped by book.

Genesis 16 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 9 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 3 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 13 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 7 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1085 FAQ

What does genos (γένος) mean?

Genos (Strong's G1085) is a Greek word most simply glossed "born". genos (ghen'-os) n. 1. kin {abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective}

How many times is genos (γένος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 113 linked usages for Strong's G1085 across 29 books.

Where can I study genos (γένος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1085 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate genos (γένος)?

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Does Strong's G1085 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 47 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 45 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1085, with linked reader references where each row is available.