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Koine Greek wordlink #149069

SR GNT 1 Pet 2:9 Γένος (Genos) ‘you_all are but a race chosen a royal priesthood’ Strongs=10850 Lemma=genos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form Γένος (N-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Γένος’ (N-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘a race’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘genos’ have 9 different glosses: ‘a race’, ‘my race’, ‘the descent’, ‘by descent’, ‘of the descent’, ‘descent’, ‘kind’, ‘kinds’, ‘race’.

Greek words (3) other than Γένος (N-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘race’

ACTs 7:19 γένος (genos) N-ANS ‘this man having taken_advantage of the race of us mistreated the’ SR GNT Acts 7:19 word 5

OET-LV: 19 This man, having _taken _advantage of _the race of _us, mistreated the fathers which to _be _making the babies of _them abandoned, in _order that to_ not _be _being _kept _alive. (ACT_7:19)

OET-RV: 19 He took advantage of us Jews and mistreated our ancestors, even forcing them apart from their own babies so they wouldn’t live. (ACT 7:19)

2 COR 11:26 γένους (genous) N-GNS ‘of robbers in dangers from my race in dangers from the pagans’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:26 word 9

OET-LV: 26 in _journeys often, in _dangers of _rivers, in _dangers of _robbers, in _dangers from ^my_race, in _dangers from the_pagans, in _dangers in the_city, in _dangers in the_wilderness, in _dangers on the_sea, in _dangers among false _brothers, (CO2_11:26)

OET-RV: 26 I’ve done many long trips, crossed dangerous rivers, risked being robbed, was persecuted by my own people as well as by non-Jews, have been in danger in the city, in the wilderness and on the ocean, as well as being attacked by false teachers. (CO2 11:26)

HEB 12:1 ἀγῶνα (agōna) N-AMS Lemma=agōn ‘the lying_before before us race’ SR GNT Heb 12:1 word 29

OET-LV: 12 So _then also we, so _much having encompassing around _us a_cloud of _witnesses, burden having _put _away every and the well _encompassing sin through endurance, may _be _running the lying _before before _us race, (HEB_12:1)

OET-RV: 12 So then with us having a cloud of witnesses around us, we should discard everything that’s a burden, as well as the sin that’s always so near to us. We should run the race that’s ahead of us with endurance, (HEB 12:1)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular ANS=accusative,neuter,singular GNS=genitive,neuter,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular