Lexicon
συγγενής
sungenēs
G4773
G:A Greek

kindred

11
Occurrences
5
Books
Greek
Language

sungenes denotes people identified as family or kin, whether gathered relatives, individual relations, or a wider fleshly kin-group.

The occurrences consistently identify persons connected by kinship: relatives gathered or sought among a household setting, named individual relations, and a broader group described as connected “according to the flesh.”

Senses in use

  1. Persons connected by family or kinship · dominant

    In Acts 10:24, the accusative plural occurs among those Cornelius had called together, and the APB renders the group “his kindred.” In Luke 2:44 and Mark 6:4, the dative plural marks people among whom someone is sought or among whom a prophet is dishonored; the APB respectively renders “their relatives” and “his kindred.” In Romans 9:3, the genitive plural occurs in the phrase concerning Paul’s brothers and those called “my kinsmen according to the flesh,” showing a broader kin-group rather than a single named person.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “kindred,” “relatives,” “relative,” and “kinsmen according to the flesh” across these verses. Those variations occur in a translation and should be read as renderings of each verse’s kinship context rather than as separate lexical senses.

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