Strong's #1078: genesis (pronounced ghen'-es-is)

from the same as 1074; nativity; figuratively, nature:--generation, nature(-ral).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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genesis

1) source, origin

1a) a book of one' s lineage, i.e. in which his ancestry or progeny are enumerated

2) used of birth, nativity

3) of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life

3a) the wheel of life (James 3:6), other explain it, the wheel of human origin which as soon as men are born begins to run, i.e. its course of life

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as G1074

Citing in TDNT: 1:682, 117

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Matthew 1:1: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."
James 1:23: "a man beholding his natural face in a glass:"
James 3:6: "setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell."