Lexical Summary genealogeō: to trace ancestry Original Word: γενεαλογέωTransliteration: genealogeō Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-eh-al-og-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to trace ancestry Meaning: to trace ancestry Strong's Concordance trace descent or ancestryFrom genea and logos; to reckon by generations, i.e. Trace in genealogy -- count by descent. see GREEK genea see GREEK logos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1075: γενεαλογέωγενεαλογέω, γενεαλόγω: (present passive γενεαλογοῦμαι); to act the genealogist (γενεά and λέγω), to recount a family's origin and lineage, trace ancestry (often in Herodotus; Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Lucian, Aelian, others; (the Sept. 1 Chronicles 5:2)); passive to draw one's origin, derive one's pedigree: ἐκ τίνος, Hebrews 7:6. |