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γίνομαι

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
γίνομαι
Greek transliteration: 
ginomai
Simplified transliteration: 
ginomai
Principal Parts: 
(ἐγινόμην), γενήσομαι, ἐγενόμην, γέγονα, γεγένημαι, ἐγενήθην
Numbers
Strong's number: 
1096
GK Number: 
1181
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
669
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-1c(2)
Gloss: 
to be, become, happen; to come into existence, be born. It is used in certain contexts to introduce a new section or paragraph in a narrative in Hebrew narrative style: and then, and it came to pass
Definition: 
pluperfect, ἐγενόει (3rd sg), to come into existence; to be created, exist by creation, Jn. 1:3, 10; Heb. 11:3; Jas. 3:9; to be born, produced, grow, Mt. 21:19; Jn. 8:58, et al.; to arise, come on, occur, as the phenomena of nature, etc.; Mt. 8:24, 26; 9:16, et al.; to come, approach, as morning or evening, Mt. 8:16; 14:15, 23; to be appointed, constituted, established, Mk. 2:27; Gal. 3:17, et al.; to take place, come to pass, happen, occur, Mt. 1:22; 24:6, 20, 21, 34, et al. freq.; to be done, performed, effected, Mt. 21:42, et al.; to be fulfilled, satisfied, Mt. 6:10; 26:42, et al.; to come into a particular state or condition; to become, assume the character and appearance of anything, Mt. 5:45, et al.; to become or be made anything, be changed or converted, Mt. 4:3; 21:42; Mk. 1:17, et al.; to be, Mt. 11:26; 19:8; γινεσθαι ὑπό τινα, to be subject to, Gal. 4:4; γινεσθαι ἐν ἑαυτῶ, to come to one's self, to recover from a trance or surprise, Acts 12:11; μὴ γένοιτο, let it not be, far be it from, God forbid, Lk. 20:16; Rom. 3:4, 31, et al.; to be kept, celebrated, solemnized, as festivals, Mt. 26:2, et al.; to be finished, completed, Heb. 4:3

Greek-English Concordance for γίνομαι

Acts 27:7 We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived (genomenoi | γενόμενοι | aor mid ptcp nom pl masc) with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.
Acts 27:16 Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) get (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) the dinghy under control.
Acts 27:27 And when it (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.
Acts 27:29 Fearing that we might run aground on the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ).
Acts 27:33 As day was about to dawn (ginesthai | γίνεσθαι | pres mid inf ), Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and been without food, having taken nothing.
Acts 27:36 So everyone was (genomenoi | γενόμενοι | aor mid ptcp nom pl masc) encouraged and they themselves took food.
Acts 27:39 Now when it (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay that had a beach, on which they planned, if possible, to run the ship ashore.
Acts 27:42 It (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none could escape by swimming away.
Acts 27:44 and the rest, some on planks and others on pieces of the ship. And so it came (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) about that all escaped safely to the land.
Acts 28:6 They were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but when they waited a long time and saw no misfortune happen (ginomenon | γινόμενον | pres mid ptcp acc sg neut) to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
Acts 28:8 It happened (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) that the father of Publius lay sick with bouts of fever and with dysentery. Paul visited him, and when he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.
Acts 28:9 And when (genomenou | γενομένου | aor mid ptcp gen sg neut) this happened (genomenou | γενομένου | aor mid ptcp gen sg neut), the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.
Acts 28:17 And it happened (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) that after three days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they gathered, he said to them: “My brothers, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Romans 1:3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended (genomenou | γενομένου | aor mid ptcp gen sg masc) from David according to the flesh,
Romans 2:25 to be sure, circumcision is of value if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) become (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) uncircumcision.
Romans 3:4 By no means! Let God be (ginesthō | γινέσθω | pres mid imperative 3 sg) true and every man a liar. As it is written, “so that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.”
Romans 3:6 By no means! For otherwise how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) be (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) held accountable to God.
Romans 3:31 Do we therefore nullify the law through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Romans 4:18 Hoping against hope, Abraham believed that he would become (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) the father of many nations according to what had been spoken, “So will your descendants be.”
Romans 6:2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
Romans 6:5 For if we (gegonamen | γεγόναμεν | perf act ind 1 pl) have (gegonamen | γεγόναμεν | perf act ind 1 pl) become (gegonamen | γεγόναμεν | perf act ind 1 pl) united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
Romans 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, if she (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) is (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) joined (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not an adulteress if she marries (genomenēn | γενομένην | aor mid ptcp acc sg fem) another man.
Romans 7:4 So then, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:13 Did (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) that which is good, then, become (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) death to me? By no means! But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good so that sin, through the commandment, might be (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) sinful beyond measure
Romans 9:14 What then shall we say? Is there not injustice on God’s part? By no means!
Romans 9:29 And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left to us descendants, we (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) would have (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) become (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Romans 10:20 Then Isaiah very boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me; I (egenomēn | ἐγενόμην | aor mid ind 1 sg) became (egenomēn | ἐγενόμην | aor mid ind 1 sg) well known to those who were not asking for me.”
Romans 11:1 So I ask, has God repudiated his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:5 So too at the present time there (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) is (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) a remnant, chosen by grace.
Romans 11:6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) no longer be (ginetai | γίνεται | pres mid ind 3 sg) grace.
Romans 11:9 And David says, “May their table become (genēthētō | γενηθήτω | aor pass imperative 3 sg) a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
Romans 11:11 So I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? By no means! But because of their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles so as to make Israel jealous.
Romans 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now (egenou | ἐγένου | aor mid ind 2 sg) share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
Romans 11:25 I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers, of this mystery — so that you may not be wise in your own conceits — that a partial hardening has (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) happened (gegonen | γέγονεν | perf act ind 3 sg) to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
Romans 11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) been (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) his counselor?
Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do (ginesthe | γίνεσθε | pres mid imperative 2 pl) not be (ginesthe | γίνεσθε | pres mid imperative 2 pl) wise in your own estimation.
Romans 15:8 For I tell you that Christ has (gegenēsthai | γεγενῆσθαι | perf pass inf ) become (gegenēsthai | γεγενῆσθαι | perf pass inf ) a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:31 that I may be delivered from those in Judea who refuse to believe, and that my service to Jerusalem may (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) prove (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) truly acceptable to the saints,
Romans 16:2 so that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and give her any help she may need from you; for she has (egenēthē | ἐγενήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) been (egenēthē | ἐγενήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) of great assistance to many, including myself.
Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners; they were well known to the apostles, and were (gegonan | γέγοναν | perf act ind 3 pl) in Christ before me.
1 Corinthians 1:30 But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who became (egenēthē | ἐγενήθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 2:3 So I came (egenomēn | ἐγενόμην | aor mid ind 1 sg) to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
1 Corinthians 3:13 the work of each person will (genēsetai | γενήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) become (genēsetai | γενήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) evident, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what sort of work each has done.
1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let (genesthō | γενέσθω | aor mid imperative 3 sg) him (genesthō | γενέσθω | aor mid imperative 3 sg) become (genesthō | γενέσθω | aor mid imperative 3 sg) foolish so that he may become (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) wise.
1 Corinthians 4:5 So then, stop passing judgment on anything before the time, before the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will disclose the motives of the heart. At that time praise will come (genēsetai | γενήσεται | fut mid ind 3 sg) to each from God.
1 Corinthians 4:9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men sentenced to death, because we (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) have (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) become (egenēthēmen | ἐγενήθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

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