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(
, 4632), “an implement, vessel, utensil,” is used of the tackling or
“gear” of a ship, Acts 27:17,
RV
(
KJV
, “sail”).
For
GENDER
see
BEGET
, No. 1
GENEALOGY
A. Noun.
(
&
, 1076) is used in 1 Tim. 1:4 and Titus 3:9, with reference to
such “genealogies” as are found in Philo, Josephus and the book of Jubilees, by which
Jews traced their descent from the patriarchs and their families, and perhaps also to
Gnostic “genealogies” and orders of aeons and spirits. Amongst the Greeks, as well as
other nations, mythological stories gathered round the birth and “genealogy” of their
heroes. Probably Jewish “genealogical” tales crept into Christian communities. Hence the
warnings to Timothy and Titus.¶
B. Verb.
(
!
, 1075), “to reckon or trace a genealogy” (from
, “a
race,” and
, “to choose, pick out”), is used, in the passive voice, of Melchizedek in
Heb. 7:6,
RV
, “whose genealogy (
KJV
, ‘descent’) is not counted.”¶
C. Adjective (
).
(
, 35), denoting “without recorded pedigree” ( ,
negative, and an adjectival form from B), is rendered “without genealogy” in Heb. 7:3.
The narrative in Gen. 14 is so framed in facts and omissions as to foreshadow the person
of Christ.¶
For
GENERAL (Assembly)
see
ASSEMBLY
, No. 2
GENERATION
1.
(
1
, 1074): see
AGE
, No. 2.
2.
(
!
, 1078) denotes “an origin, a lineage, or birth,” translated
“generation” in Matt. 1:1. See
NATURAL
,
NATURE
.
Notes:
(1) For
, translated “generation” in the
KJV
of Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33;
Luke 3:7, see
OFFSPRING
.¶ (2) For
, translated “generation” in 1 Pet. 2:9,
KJV
, see
KIND
.
GENTILES
A. Nouns.
1.
(
+
, 1484), whence Eng., “heathen,” denotes, firstly, “a multitude or
company”; then, “a multitude of people of the same nature or genus, a nation, people”; it
is used in the singular, of the Jews, e.g., Luke 7:5; 23:2; John 11:48, 50-52; in the plural,
of nations (Heb.,
) other than Israel, e.g., Matt. 4:15; Rom. 3:29; 11:11; 15:10; Gal.
2:8; occasionally it is used of gentile converts in distinction from Jews, e.g., Rom. 11:13;
16:4; Gal. 2:12, 14; Eph. 3:1.
2.
(
P
Q
, 1672) originally denoted the early descendants of Thessalian
Hellas; then, Greeks as opposed to barbarians, Rom. 1:14. It became applied to such
Gentiles as spoke the Greek language, e.g., Gal. 2:3; 3:28. Since that was the common