Word Summary
syngenēs: congenital, akin to, subst. a kinsman, relative
Original Word: συγγενήςTransliteration: syngenēs
Phonetic Spelling: (soong-ghen-ace')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: congenital, akin to, subst. a kinsman, relative
Meaning: congenital, akin to, a kinsman, relative
Strong's Concordance
relative, kinsman, cousin
From sun and genos; a relative (by blood); by extension, a fellow countryman -- cousin, kin(-sfolk, -sman).
see GREEK sun
see GREEK genos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4773: συγγενήςσυγγενής,
συγγενες (accusative singular
συγγενῆ, and in
Romans 16:11 Treg. συγγενην; see
ἄρσην), dative plural
συγγενέσιν and (in
Mark 6:4 T Tr (
WH, also in
Luke 2:44 WH) according to a barbarous declension, cf. (1 Macc. 10:89)
Buttmann, 25 (22))
συγγενεῦσιν (
σύν and
γένος) (from
Pindar,
Aeschylus down; the
Sept.),
of the same kin, akin to, related by blood, (
Pliny,
congener):
Mark 6:4;
Luke 2:44;
Luke 21:16;
τίνος, Luke (
); ; John 18:26; Acts 10:24; Revelation 16:7, 11, 21 (see below); ἡ συγγενής, Luke 1:36 R G Tr (Leviticus 18:14); in a wider sense, of the same race, a fellow-countryman: Romans 9:3 ((so some take the word in , above; cf. Lightfoot on Philippians, p. 175)). STRONGS NT 4773: συγγενίςσυγγενίς, συγγενιδος, ἡ (see the preceding word), a later Greek word ((Plutarch, quaest. Romans 6); like ἐυγενις, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 451f; cf. Winers Grammar, 69 (67); Kühner, i., p. 419 Anm. 8), a kinswoman: τίνος, Luke 1:36 L T WH.