Definition
I become, am, exist; am born, am created; happen
Vocabulary Form
γίνομαι
Erasmian
Modern
Root
γεν
Frequency
669
GK
1181
Forms
(ἐγινόμην), γενήσομαι, ἐγενόμην, γέγονα, γεγένημαι, ἐγενήθην
Notes
Takes a predicate nominative, like εἰμί. γίνομαι 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. ἐγενόμην is an aorist middle deponent.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 1:23 | When the days of his priestly service were over, he went to his home. |
| Luke 1:38 | So Mary said, “Behold, the maidservant of the Lord! Let (genoito | γένοιτο | aor mid opt 3 sg) it happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. |
| Luke 1:41 | and when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, |
| Luke 1:44 | For behold, as the sound of your greeting came (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) into my ear, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. |
| Luke 1:59 | On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to call him by the name of his father, Zechariah. |
| Luke 1:65 | Fear came upon all who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the whole hill country of Judea. |
| Luke 2:1 | In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus for all the world to be registered. |
| Luke 2:2 | This registration first took (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) place while Quirinius was governing Syria. |
| Luke 2:6 | And while they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth, |
| Luke 2:13 | And suddenly there was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg), with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, |
| Luke 2:15 | When the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began to speak to one another, “Let us go across to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken (gegonos | γεγονός | perf act ptcp acc sg neut) place, which the Lord has made known to us.” |
| Luke 2:42 | And when he was (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) twelve years old, when they went up according to the custom of the feast |
| Luke 2:46 | Then after three days they found him in the temple, seated in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. |
| Luke 3:2 | when Annas was high priest, and Caiaphas, the word of God came (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) upon John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. |
| Luke 3:21 | Now when all the people had been baptized, and when Jesus was baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, |
| Luke 3:22 | and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came (genesthai | γενέσθαι | aor mid inf ) from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” |
| Luke 4:3 | The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become (genētai | γένηται | aor mid subj 3 sg) bread.” |
| Luke 4:23 | And he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard happened (genomena | γενόμενα | aor mid ptcp acc pl neut) in Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.” |
| Luke 4:25 | But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, as a great famine spread (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) throughout the whole land; |
| Luke 4:36 | Astonishment came (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) over them all, and they said to one another, “What is this teaching? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits and they come out!” |
| Luke 4:42 | When daylight came (genomenēs | γενομένης | aor mid ptcp gen sg fem) he left and went to a deserted place. And the crowds were looking for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them, |
| Luke 5:1 | It happened (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) that, when the crowd was pressing around him and listening to the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret |
| Luke 5:12 | It happened (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) that, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” |
| Luke 5:17 | It happened (egeneto | ἐγένετο | aor mid ind 3 sg) on one of those days when he was teaching, and sitting there were Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and power from the Lord was there for him to heal, |
| Luke 6:1 | One Sabbath, as Jesus was going through grainfields, his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them. |