About The Word Genesis
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Genesis
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What's The Definition Of Genesis?
[n] the first book of the Old Testament: tells of creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers
[n] a coming into being Synonyms | Synonyms for Genesis: generation Related Terms | Find terms related to Genesis: abiogenesis | accouchement | adaptation | alpha | archigenesis | babyhood | beginning | beginnings | biogenesis | biological evolution | birth | birth throes | birthing | blastogenesis | blessed event | childbearing | childbed | childbirth | childhood | commencement | conception | confinement | cradle | dawn | dawning | delivery | derivation | development | digenesis | epigenesis | eumerogenesis | freshman year | generation | giving birth | grass roots | hatching | having a baby | head | heterogenesis | histogenesis | homogenesis | horotely | inception | inchoation | incipience | incipiency | incunabula | infancy | isogenesis | labor | merogenesis | metagenesis | monogenesis | multiparity | nascence | nascency | nativity | natural selection | ontogenesis | ontogeny | opening | origin | original | origination | orthogenesis | outset | outstart | pangenesis | parthenogenesis | parturition | phylogenesis | phylogeny | physiogenesis | physiogeny | pregnancy | procreation | provenance | provenience | radical | radix | rise | root | setout | source | spontaneous generation | start | stem | stock | tachytely | taproot | the Nativity | the stork | travail | youth See Also | beginning | book | Laws | Pentateuch | Torah Genesis In Webster's Dictionary \Gen"e*sis\, n. [L., from Gr. ge`nesis, fr. the root of
gi`gnesqai to beget, be born; akin to L. genus birth, race.
See {Gender}.]
1. The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to
anything; the process or mode of originating; production;
formation; origination.
The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club.
--Carlyle.
2. The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the
Greek translators, from its containing the history of the
creation of the world and of the human race.
3. (Geom.) Same as {Generation}.
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