Greek adjective · G2104
εὐγενής
eugenesyoog-en'-ace
well born, of noble race; noble-minded
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eugenḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2104is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2104
well born, i.e. (literally) high in rank, or (figuratively) generous
The King James renders it: more noble, nobleman.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eugenes is rendered "well born, of noble race; noble-minded". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "well born, of noble race".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 19:12So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
Luke 19:12εὐγενὴς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: well born, of noble race, and noble-minded.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| well born, of noble raceLuk.19:12, 1Co.1:26. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 19:12So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and… |
| noble-mindedcompar., -έστερος, Act.17:11.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- εὐγενεῖς1
- εὐγενέστεροι1
- εὐγενὴς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM-C
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Luke
one use
So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
- εὐγενὴςeugenesadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: of noble birth
Acts
one use
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
- εὐγενέστεροιeugenesteroiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: more noble
1 Corinthians
one use
Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
- εὐγενεῖςeugeneisadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: of noble birth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.