For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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γίνομαι
Vocabulary form:
γίνομαι
Definition:
I become; am
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
669
GK:
1181
Notes:
Takes a predicate nominative, like eijmiv. givnomai has a wide range of meaning. We have found it helpful to think in two categories, "to be," or "to come into being." Most uses fall into one of these two groups.
The root is clearly visible outside of the present tense stem. ejgenovmhn is an aorist middle deponent.
Biblical Concordance
| Matthew 1:22 | All this took (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) place so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: |
| Matthew 4:3 | And the tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to (genōntai | γένωνται | aor mid subj 3 pl) become (genōntai | γένωνται | aor mid subj 3 pl) bread.” |
| Matthew 5:18 | I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single iota or one little stroke will pass from the law until everything takes (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) place. |
| Matthew 5:45 | so that you may be (genēsthe | γένησθε | aor mid subj 2 pl) sons of your Father who is in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. |
| Matthew 6:10 | may your kingdom come, may your will be done (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg), on earth as it is in heaven. |
| Matthew 6:16 | “And when you fast, do (ginesthe | γίνεσθε | pres mid imperative 2 pl) not put (ginesthe | γίνεσθε | pres mid imperative 2 pl) on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces so that they will appear to others as fasting; I tell you the truth, they have their reward. |
| Matthew 7:28 | Now when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, |
| Matthew 8:13 | And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) will (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) be (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) done (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) for you just as you believed.” And his servant was healed at that very hour. |
| Matthew 8:16 | Now when (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) evening came (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem), they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were ill. |
| Matthew 8:24 | Suddenly a violent storm arose (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. |
| Matthew 8:26 | And he said to them, “Why are you so afraid, you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) a great calm. |
| Matthew 9:10 | And as Jesus sat at table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were eating with Jesus and his disciples. |
| Matthew 9:16 | No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment, and the tear will (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) be (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) worse. |
| Matthew 9:29 | Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith may it be done (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) to you.” |
| Matthew 10:16 | “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be (ginesthe | γίνεσθε | pres mid imperative 2 pl) shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. |
| Matthew 10:25 | It is enough for the disciple that he be (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they revile the members of his household! |
| Matthew 11:1 | Now when Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and proclaim his message in their towns. |
| Matthew 11:20 | Then he began to reprimand the towns in which most of his mighty works had been done (egenonto | ἐγένοντο | aor mid ind 3 pl), because they did not repent: |
| Matthew 11:21 | “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done (genomenai | γενόμεναι | aor mid ptcp nom pl fem) in you had been done (egenonto | ἐγένοντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) in Tyre and Sidon, had been done (egenonto | ἐγένοντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) the mighty works done (genomenai | γενόμεναι | aor mid ptcp nom pl fem) in you they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. |
| Matthew 11:23 | And as for you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the mighty works done (genomenai | γενόμεναι | aor mid ptcp nom pl fem) in you had been done (egenēthēsan | ἐγενήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) in Sodom, had been done (egenēthēsan | ἐγενήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) the mighty works done (genomenai | γενόμεναι | aor mid ptcp nom pl fem) in you it would have remained to this day. |
| Matthew 11:26 | yes, Father, for such was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) your gracious will. |
| Matthew 12:45 | Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there; and the last state of that person turns (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) out (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) to (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) be (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) worse than the first. So will it be for this evil generation as well.” |
| Matthew 13:21 | yet he has no root in himself but lasts only a short time, and when suffering or persecution arises (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) on account of the message, immediately he falls away. |
| Matthew 13:22 | As for the one who was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the message, but worldly anxiety and the deception of wealth choke the message and it (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) becomes (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) unfruitful. |
| Matthew 13:32 | It is the smallest of all the seeds; but when it is grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) a tree so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.” |
| Matthew 13:53 | Now when Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. |
| Matthew 14:6 | But when (genomenois | γενομένοις | aor mid ptcp dat pl neut) Herod’s birthday came (genomenois | γενομένοις | aor mid ptcp dat pl neut), the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod. |
| Matthew 14:15 | When (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) evening came (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem), the disciples approached him, saying, “This is a deserted place and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” |
| Matthew 14:23 | And after sending the crowds away, he went up on the mountainside by himself to pray; and when (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) evening came (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem), he was there alone. |
| Matthew 15:28 | Then Jesus answered, saying to her, “O woman, great is your faith! What you desire will be done (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) for you.” And her daughter was healed at once. |
| Matthew 16:2 | And he answered them, saying, “When (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) evening comes (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem), you say, ‘The weather will be fair, for the sky is red’; |
| Matthew 17:2 | And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) white as light. |
| Matthew 18:3 | said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become (genēsthe | γένησθε | aor mid subj 2 pl) like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven! |
| Matthew 18:12 | What do you think? If a man has (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the slopes and go in search of the one that has wandered off? |
| Matthew 18:13 | And if he finds (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. |
| Matthew 18:19 | “Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth are in agreement about anything whatever you may ask, it will be done (genēsetai | γενήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) for you by my Father who is in heaven. |
| Matthew 18:31 | So when his fellow servants saw what had happened (genomena | γενόμενα | aor mid ptcp acc pl neut), they became indignant and went and told their master all that had taken place (genomena | γενόμενα | aor mid ptcp acc pl neut). |
| Matthew 19:1 | Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. |
| Matthew 19:8 | Jesus replied “Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts; but it (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) was (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) not that way from the beginning. |
| Matthew 20:8 | And when (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) evening came (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem), the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going back to the first.’ |
| Matthew 20:26 | It will not be so among you. But whoever would be (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) great among you must be your servant, |
| Matthew 21:4 | This took (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) place in order that what had been spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, |
| Matthew 21:19 | And seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, “May (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) no fruit ever come (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) from you again!” And at once the fig tree withered away. |
| Matthew 21:21 | And Jesus answered them, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen (genēsetai | γενήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg). |
| Matthew 21:42 | Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone that the builders rejected has become (egenēthē | ἐγενήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) the cornerstone; this was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the Lord’s doing (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg), and it is amazing in our eyes’? |
| Matthew 23:15 | “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel over land and sea to gain a single convert; and when he becomes (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. |
| Matthew 23:26 | You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that its outside may become (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) clean too. |
| Matthew 24:6 | And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) place but the end is not yet. |
| Matthew 24:20 | And pray that your flight will (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) not be (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) in winter or on a Sabbath. |
| Matthew 24:21 | For then there will be great suffering, such as has (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) not been (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) from the beginning of the world until now, and will (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) never be (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) again. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
ginomai as in 'I am becoming Gemini'