γενεᾶς (geneas)

γενεᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of γενεά, meaning “generation, family, birth”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 166 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 8.3: ἐν μιᾷ δὲ τῶν στηλῶν ἐλεγεῖον ἦν τόδε γεγραμμένον· παντοδαπῶν ἀνδρῶν γενεὰς Ἀσίας ἀπὸ χώρας παῖδες Ἀθηναίων τῷδέ ποτʼ ἐν πελάγει ναυμαχίῃ δαμάσαντες, ἐπεὶ στρατὸς ὤλετο Μήδων, σήματα τα …

Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides and Marcus Cato 3.6: … χε· καὶ γὰρ υἱωνοὶ καὶ τούτων ἔτι παῖδες ἦρξαν ἀρχὰς τὰς μεγίστας· τῆς δʼ Ἀριστείδου τοῦ πρωτεύσαντος Ἑλλήνων γενεᾶς ἡ πολλὴ καὶ ἄπορος πενίᾳ τοὺς μέν εἰς ἀγυρτικοὺς κατέβαλε πίνακας, τοὺς δὲ δημοσίῳ τὰς χεῖρας ἐράνῳ διʼ ἔνδει …

New Testament, Luke 1.50: καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γενεάς τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτόν.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.