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1 γένος
γένος, ους, τό (Hom.+; loanw. in rabb.) a noun expressive of relationship of various degrees and kinds.① ancestral stock, descendant ἐκ γένους ἀρχιερατικοῦ of high-priestly descent (s. Jos., Ant. 15, 40) Ac 4:6 (PTebt 291, 36 ἀπέδειξας σεαυτὸν γένους ὄντα ἱερατικοῦ, cp. 293, 14; 18; BGU 82, 7 al. pap). υἱοὶ γένους Ἀβραάμ 13:26 (s. Demetr.: 722 Fgm. 2, 1 Jac.; Jos., Ant. 5, 113; Just., D. 23, 3 ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ Ἀ.); γ. Δαυίδ Rv 22:16; IEph 20:2; ITr 9:1; ISm 1:1. τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν we, too, are descended from him Ac 17:28 (quoted fr. Arat., Phaenom. 5; perh. as early as Epimenides [RHarris, Exp. 8th ser. IV, 1912, 348–53; CBruston, RTQR 21, 1913, 533–35; DFrøvig, SymbOsl 15/16, ’36, 44ff; MZerwick, VD 20, ’40, 307–21; EPlaces, Ac 17:28: Biblica 43, ’62, 388–95]. Cp. also IG XIV, 641; 638 in Norden, Agn. Th. 194 n.; Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus 4 [Stoic. I 537] ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ γένος …; Dio Chrys. 80 [30], 26 ἀπὸ τ. θεῶν τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος; Ep. 44 of Apollonius of Tyana [Philostrat. I 354, 22] γένος ὄντες θεοῦ; Hierocles 25, 474, vs. 63 of the Carmen Aur.: θεῖον γένος ἐστὶ βροτοῖσιν), cp. Ac 17:29.—Also of an individual descendant, scion (Hom.; Soph., Ant. 1117 Bacchus is Διὸς γ.). Jesus is τὸ γένος Δαυίδ Rv 22:16 (cp. Epimenides [VI B.C.]: 457 Fgm. 3 Jac., the saying of Musaeus: ἐγὼ γένος εἰμι Σελήνης; Quint. Smyrn. 1, 191 σεῖο θεοῦ γένος ἐστί).② a relatively small group with common ancestry, family, relatives (Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 54 §228; Reg. 1a§1; BGU 1185, 18; Jos., Ant. 17, 22; 18, 127; Ath. 32, 3) τὸ γ. Ἰωσήφ Ac 7:13.③ a relatively large people group, nation, people (Appian, Bell. Civ. 2, 71 §294 Ἑβραίων γένος; 2, 90 §380 Ἰουδαίων γ., the latter also Diod S 34+35 Fgm. 1, 1; 40, 3, 8; Maximus Tyr. 23, 7b; Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 108 D.: τῶν Ἑλλήνων γ.; Achilles Tat. 1, 3, 1; 3, 19, 1; Synes., Ep. 121 p. 258b τὸ Ἐβραίων γ.; TestLevi 5:6 and PsSol 7:8 τὸ γένος Ἰσραήλ; Jos., Bell. 7, 43, Ant. 10, 183 τὸ Ἑβραίων γ.; Just., D. 49, 3 ἐν τῷ γ. ὑμῶν; Demetr.: 722 Fgm. 3 τὸ Ἰουδαίων γ.) Ac 7:19; Gal 1:14; Phil 3:5; B 14:7 (Is 42:6). Of Christians: γένος ἐκλεκτόν a chosen nation 1 Pt 2:9 (Is 43:20; TestJob 1:5; cp. Esth 8:12t; s. JFenton, CBQ 9, ’47, 141f); καινὸν γ. Dg 1; τρίτῳ γένει as a third people (beside gentiles and Jews) PtK 2 p. 15, 8 (s. Harnack, Mission4 I 1924, 259–89); γ. τῶν δικαίων MPol 14:1; 17:1; Hs 9, 17, 5; cp. 9, 19, 1 ἄνομον; 9, 30, 3 ἄκακον. θεοφιλὲς καὶ θεοσεβὲς γ. τῶν Χριστιανῶν godly and pious race of the Christians MPol 3:2 (Plut., Mor. 567f: the Greeks acc. to the divine verdict are τὸ βέλτιστον κ. θεοφιλέστατον γένος; Mel., HE 4, 26, 5 τὸ τῶν θεοσεβῶν γ.). ἄνομον Hs 9, 19, 1. τῷ γένει w. name of a people to denote nationality (Menand., Peric. 9 Kö. [129 S.]; Plut., Dem. 859 [28, 3]; Jos., Ant. 20, 81; BGU 887, 3 and 15; 937, 9 δοῦλος γένει Ποντικός; cp. 2 Macc 5:22; 3 Macc 1:3; B-D-F §197) Mk 7:26; Ac 4:36; 18:2, 24. Pregnant constr. κίνδυνοι ἐκ γένους perils from the people=my compatriots, fellow-Israelites 2 Cor 11:26.④ entities united by common traits, class, kind (Ps.-Xenophon, Cyneg. 3, 1 τὰ γένη τῶν κυνῶν; Apollon. Rhod. 4, 1517 and Just., D. 60, 2 snakes; PTebt 703, 133 [III B.C.] καθʼ ἕκαστον γένος; PGiss 40, 9 παντὸς γένους πολιτευμάτων and oft. pap; Wsd 19:21; Philo; Just., A II, 7, 5 ἀγγέλων … ἀνθρώπων; D. 23:5 τὸ θῆλυ γ.) of plants (BGU 1119, 27 [I B.C.] ταὐτὰ γένη ‘the same species of plants’; 1120, 34; 1122, 23) Hs 8, 2, 7; of fish (Heniochus Com. 3; Jos., Bell. 3, 508) Mt 13:47; of draught animals Hs 9, 1, 8; of cattle in gener. 9, 24, 1; of hostile spirits Mt 17:21; Mk 9:29 (Herm. Wr. 13, 2 τοῦτο τὸ γένος οὐ διδάσκεται). γένη γλωσσῶν (s. γλῶσσα 3) 1 Cor 12:10, 28; γ. φωνῶν 14:10; all humanity B 14:7 (Is 42:6; cp. Ar. 2, 1 τὸ ἀνθρώπινον γ.; Just., A I, 43, 3 al. τὸ ἀνθρώπεινον γ.; 46, 2 al. πᾶν γʼ ἀνθρώπων).—B. 85; 1317. DELG s.v. γίγνομαι p. 222. M-M.
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