origin

Greek Noun Female

γένεσις, -εως, ἡ (γίγνομαι), [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹלֵדֹת;] 1) origin, lineage: βίβλος γενέσεως (as in Gen.2:4 a 5:1), Mat.1:1. 2) birth: Mat.1:18, Luk.1:14 (Rec. γέννησις); πρόσωπον τῆς γ, face of his birth ("what God made him to be," Hort, in l.), Jas.1:23; ὁ τροχὸς τῆς γ, the wheel (course) of birth or creation ("the wheel of man's nature according to its original Divine purpose," Hort), Jas.3:6. (AS)

origin

Greek Noun Female

γένεσις, εως, ἡ, (γενέσθαι) origin, source, Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γ. πάντεσσι τέτυκται[Refs 5th c.BC+]; beginning, in dual, τοῖν γενεσέοιν ἡ ἑτέρα [Refs] II) manner of birth, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; race, descent, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ γένεσιν, opposed to καθ᾽ υἱοθεσίαν, [Refs] II.2) Astrology texts, nativity, geniture, [Refs 1st c.AD+]: hence, lot, fortune, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] III) production, generation, coming into being, opposed to ὄλεθρος, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; more usually opposed to φθορά, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, title of work by [Refs 4th c.BC+]: generally, formation, πύου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; origination, making, ἱματίων, περὶ τὰ ἀμφιέσματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+] III.2) ={τὸ γίγνεσθαι}, becoming, opposed to οὐσία,[Refs 5th c.AD+] IV) concrete, creation, i.e. all created things, [Refs 5th c.BC+] V) race, kind or sort of animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; family, δίδυμος γ. of the Spartan kings, [Refs] VI) generation, age, [Refs]; κατὰ περίστασιν τῆς γ. according to the circumstances of his time, [Refs 3rd c.AD+] VII) παιδοπόρος γ. genitalia muliebria, [Refs 1st c.AD+] VIII) in Mathematics texts, generation of a figure, [Refs 3rd c.AD+] VIII.b) origin of a spiral, [Refs]; ἡ ἐν γ. εὐθεῖα the initial line, [Refs]

Greek

Noun Feminine

nativity; figuratively, nature; generation, nature(-ral); from the same as g1074 (γενεά)