Genesis
['dʒenɪsɪs] or ['dʒɛnəsɪs]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) a coming into being.
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Same as Generation.
Typist: Margery
Definition
n. generation creation or production: the first book of the Bible so called from its containing an account of the Creation:—pl. Gen′esēs.—adjs. Genes′iac -al Genesit′ic pertaining to Genesis.
Checked by Jacques
Examples
- I mistook the chapter, and book, and Testament--gospel for law, Acts for Genesis, the city of Jerusalem for the plain of Shinar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Iron, somewhat more refractory, appeared later, but it also has an early history, and is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis iv. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that early period attended to. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The genesis of the electric motor began in 1821 with Faraday’s observation of the phenomenon of the conversion of an electric current into mechanical motion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I wondered why the black man took such pains to discourse thus at length to enemies upon the genesis of life Barsoomian. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They constitute the first ten chapters of Genesis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With that, Genesis, the first book of the Pentateuch, ends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She recalled again the old magic of the Book of Genesis, where the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The first mention of time which we have is found in the Book of Genesis, where it is written and the evening and the morning were the first day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- See what Scripture says about dreams and their fulfilment (Genesis xl. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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