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GENESIS
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Irregular inflected form: geneses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
Book of Genesis; Genesis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A coming into being
Synonyms:
generation; genesis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genesis" is a kind of...):
beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)
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