Original Word: γενέσια
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: genesia
Pronunciation: gheh-NEH-see-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-es'-ee-ah)
KJV: birthday
NASB: birthday
Word Origin: [neuter plural of a derivative of G1078 (γένεσις - birth)]

1. birthday ceremonies

birthday.

Neuter plural of a derivative of genesis; birthday ceremonies -- birthday.

see GREEK genesis

Word Origin
from genesis
Definition
a birthday celebration
NASB Translation
birthday (2).

STRONGS NT 1077: γενέσια

γενέσια, γενεσίων, τά (cf. Winer's Grammar, 176 (166)) (from the adjective γενέσιος from γένεσις), a birthday celebration, a birth-day feast: Mark 6:21; Matthew 14:6; (Alciphron epistles 3, 18 and 55; Dio Cassius, 47, 18, etc.; ἡ γενέσιος ἡμέρα, Josephus, Antiquities 12, 4, 7). The earlier Greeks used γενέσια of funeral commemorations, a festival commemorative of a deceased friend (Latinferiaedenicales), see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 103f; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 184; Winers Grammar, 24 (23)). Cf. Keim, ii., p. 516 (iv. 223 English translation).

Forms and Transliterations

γενεσιοις γενεσίοις γενεσίων genesiois genesíois

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