Lexical Summary agenēs: unborn, of no family, ignoble Original Word: ἀγενήςTransliteration: agenēs Phonetic Spelling: (ag-en-ace') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unborn, of no family, ignoble Meaning: unborn, of no family, ignoble Strong's Concordance base things. From a (as negative particle) and genos; properly, without kin, i.e. (of unknown descent, and by implication) ignoble -- base things. see GREEK a see GREEK genos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 36: ἀγενήςἀγενής, (εος ((οῦς), ὁ, ἡ (γένος), opposed to εὐγενής, of no family, a man of base birth, a man of no name or reputation; often used by secular writers, also in the secondary sense ignoble, cowardly, mean, base. In the N. T. only in 1 Corinthians 1:28, τά ἀγενῆ τοῦ κόσμου i. e. those who among men are held of no account; on the use of a neuter adjective in reference to persons, see Winers Grammar, 178 (167); (Buttmann, 122 (107)). |