Lexical Summary genesia: a birthday celebration Original Word: γενέσιαTransliteration: genesia Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-es'-ee-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a birthday celebration Meaning: a birthday celebration Strong's Concordance birthday. Neuter plural of a derivative of genesis; birthday ceremonies -- birthday. see GREEK genesis Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1077: γενέσιαγενέσια, 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). |
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