King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1075
Transliteration: genealogeō
Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-eh-al-og-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to trace ancestry
Meaning: to trace ancestry
γενεαλογέω, γενεαλόγω: (present passive γενεαλογοῦμαι); to act the genealogist (γενεά and λέγω), to recount a family's origin and lineage, trace ancestry (often in Herodotus; Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others; (the Sept. 1 Chronicles 5:2)); passive to draw one's origin, derive one's pedigree: ἐκ τίνος, Hebrews 7:6.
Word Summary
genealogeō: to trace ancestry
Original Word: γενεαλογέωTransliteration: genealogeō
Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-eh-al-og-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to trace ancestry
Meaning: to trace ancestry
Strong's Concordance
trace descent or ancestryFrom genea and logos; to reckon by generations, i.e. Trace in genealogy -- count by descent.
see GREEK genea
see GREEK logos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1075: γενεαλογέωγενεαλογέω, γενεαλόγω: (present passive γενεαλογοῦμαι); to act the genealogist (γενεά and λέγω), to recount a family's origin and lineage, trace ancestry (often in Herodotus; Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others; (the Sept. 1 Chronicles 5:2)); passive to draw one's origin, derive one's pedigree: ἐκ τίνος, Hebrews 7:6.