Gínomai — G1096

G1096 · Greek — γίνομαι

Pronunciation: ghin'-om-ahee

Definition

verb

to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)

  1. to become, i. e. to come into existence, begin to be, receive being
  2. to become equivalent to to come to pass, happen, of events
    1. universally
    2. Very common in the first three Gospels, especially that of Luke, and in the Acts, is the phrase καί ἐγένετο (וַיְהִי followed by וְ)
    3. In like manner ἐγένετο δέ (a.) followed by καί with a finite verb
    4. with the dative of person to occur or happen to one, befall one
  3. to arise, appear in history, come upon the stage
  4. to be made, done, finished
  5. to become, be made, "in passages where it is specified who or what a person or thing is or has been rendered, as respects quality, condition, place, rank, character"
    1. with a predicate added, expressed by a substantive or an adjective
    2. with an interrogative pronoun as predicate
    3. γίνεσθαι ὡς or ὡσεί τινα to become as or like to one
    4. γινεσθα εἰς τί to become i. e. be changed into something, come to be, issue in, something (German zuetwaswerden)
    5. γίνεσθαι with Cases
    6. joined to prepositions with their substantives

“And it came to pass” (kai egeneto) copies the Hebrew narrative formula wayehi and introduces many episodes in Luke and Mark (Luke 2:1; Mark 1:9).

Usually translated as

soon as it was, be, be ordained to be, pass, be made, come, become, God forbid, have, be fulfilled, be married, grow, be wrought, be assembled, be brought, be divided, be ended, be finished, be found, be performed, be published, require, be showed, be taken, be turned, would, arise, befall, behave self, continue, draw, fall, follow, happen, be kept, partake, seem, sound, use, wax, will

Origin

a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb

Occurrences

Gínomai occurs 667 times in 627 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (69), Mark (49), Luke (131), John (48), Acts (117), Romans (30), 1 Corinthians (39), 2 Corinthians (10), Galatians (11), Ephesians (8), Philippians (6), Colossians (5), 1 Thessalonians (11), 2 Thessalonians (1), 1 Timothy (4), 2 Timothy (4), Titus (1), Philemon (1), Hebrews (27), James (10), 1 Peter (7), 2 Peter (5), 1 John (1), 3 John (1), Revelation (31)

Strong's Lexicon — G