GENESIS (geneses)

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Irregular inflected form: geneses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Genesis mean? 

• GENESIS (noun)
  The noun GENESIS has 2 senses:

1. a coming into being

2. 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

  Familiarity information: GENESIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coming into being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

generation; genesis

Hypernyms ("genesis" is a kind of...):

beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Genesis; Genesis

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Domain member category:

Babel; Tower of Babel ((Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another)

Holonyms ("Genesis" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Laws; Pentateuch; Torah (the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit)

 Context examples 

Activation of the ErbB family of growth factor receptors and subsequent stimulation of their associated intracellular signaling pathways is a significant factor in the genesis of several human cancers.

(Her2/erbb2/neu Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Receptor overexpression can lead to disease states such as the genesis or progression of tumors.

(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

More recently, CCR3 expression has been demonstrated on basophils and Th2-type T cells, suggesting possible roles for CCR3 in the genesis and maintenance of allergic inflammation.

(Allergy Chemokine Network Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Smith realised this tablet told the same story as Noah and the Ark in the Biblical book of Genesis.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

The deregulation of beta-catenin is an apparent important event in the genesis of a number of malignancies.

(Axin 2, NCI Thesaurus)

I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Having described the genesis of their journey, and paid a handsome tribute to his friend Professor Challenger, coupled with an apology for the incredulity with which his assertions, now fully vindicated, had been received, he gave the actual course of their journey, carefully withholding such information as would aid the public in any attempt to locate this remarkable plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although there were more gods involved than in Genesis, and the Babylonian hero had a different name, the two stories were recognisably the same, with animals taken aboard the ark before the flood and birds sent out at the end once the rain stopped.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)