36. agenés
Lexicon
agenés: Lowly, insignificant, of no noble birth

Original Word: ἀγενής
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: agenés
Pronunciation: ag-en-ACE
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-en-ace')
KJV: base things
NASB: base things
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as negative particle) and G1085 (γένος - kind)]

1. (properly) without kin
2. (socially) of unknown descent
3. (by implication) ignoble

Strong's Exhaustive 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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and genos
Definition
unborn, of no family, ignoble
NASB Translation
base things (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 36: ἀγενής

ἀγενής, (εος ((οῦς), , (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)).

Forms and Transliterations
αγενη αγενή ἀγενῆ agene agenê agenē agenē̂
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Corinthians 1:28 Adj-ANP
GRK: καὶ τὰ ἀγενῆ τοῦ κόσμου
NAS: and the base things of the world
KJV: And base things of the world, and
INT: and the low-born of the world

Strong's Greek 36
1 Occurrence


ἀγενῆ — 1 Occ.

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