ginomai marks becoming or coming about: people, conditions, events, and outcomes enter the state described by their clauses.

The sampled verses most often use the verb for entering a described condition, role, or identity; they also use it for an event or circumstance coming about. The surrounding clauses show people becoming holy, free, examples, or fellow workers, while affliction, persecution, a voice, and other events are presented as occurring.

1. Become or enter a stated condition · dominant

   The verb marks a change into the condition supplied by its clause. In 1 Corinthians 3:18, two aorist middle forms occur where the APB renders the movement from becoming “foolish” to becoming “wise”; in 1 Peter 1:15, an aorist passive form stands in the call to become holy in conduct. Other clauses describe becoming free, a sharer, or fellow workers.

   1 Corinthians 3:181 Corinthians 7:211 Corinthians 9:231 Peter 1:152 Corinthians 5:213 John 1:8
2. Happen or come about · common

   The verb also identifies an event or circumstance as taking place rather than a person’s changed status. In Acts 10:16, an aorist middle form occurs in the clause the APB renders “This happened three times”; in 2 Corinthians 1:8 and 2 Timothy 3:11, comparable forms occur with affliction and persecutions that came upon the speaker. A present participial form in 1 Peter 4:12 occurs with the burning that is occurring among the readers.

   Acts 10:161 Thessalonians 3:42 Corinthians 1:82 Timothy 3:111 Peter 4:122 Timothy 2:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the sampled clauses, the APB commonly uses “become,” but it also renders event contexts with “happened,” “came upon,” or “occurred.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those renderings identify the clause’s presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.