γένος

γένος — génos

γένος, γένους, τό (ΓΑΝΩ, γίνομαι), race;

a. offspring: τίνος, Act 17:28 f (from the poet Aratus); Rev 22:16.

b. family: Acts (Act 4:6, see ἀρχιερεύς, 2 at the end); (others refer this to c.);.

c. stock, race: Act 7:19; 2Co 11:26; Php 3:5; Gal 1:14; 1Pe 2:9; (Gen 11:6; Gen 17:14, etc. for עַם); nation (i. e. nationality or descent from a particular people): Mar 7:26; Act 4:36; Act 18:2; Act 18:24.

d. concrete, the aggregate of many individuals of the same nature, kind, sort, species: Mat 13:7; Mat 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mar 9:29; 1Co 12:10; 1Co 12:28; 1Co 14:10. (With the same significations in Greek writings from Homer down.)

STRONGS NT 1085a: ΓερασηνόςΓερασηνός, Γερασηνου, ὁ, Gerasene, i. e. belonging to the city Gerasa (τά Γέρασα, Josephus, b. j. 3, 3, 3): Mat 8:28 (Lachmann); Mar 5:1 (L T WH Tr text); Luk 8:26; Luk 8:37 (L Tr WH) according to very many manuscripts seen by Origen. But since Gerasa was a city situated in the southern part of Peraea (Josephus, the passage cited, cf. 4, 9, 1), or in Arabia (Origen, Works, iv. 140, De la Rue edition), that cannot be referred to here; see Γαδαρηνός, and the next word.