G3439 – monogenes – μονογενής – to be only-born
- Strong’s ID:
- G3439
- Greek Word:
- μονογενής
- Transliteration:
- monogenēs / monogenes
- Pronunciation:
- mon-og-en-ace’
- Part of Speech:
- adjective
- Etymology:
- from G3441 and G1096
- Usage Count:
- 9
- Search:
- Find “monogenes” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to be only-born
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3441 and G1096; only-born, i.e. sole:—only (begotten, child).
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) single of its kind, only
1a) used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents)
1b) used of Christ, denotes the only begotten son of God
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.