Gender
King James Dictionary [1]
GEN'DER, n. L. genus, from geno, gigno Gr.to beget, or to be born Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.
1. Properly, kind sort. 2. A sex, male or female. Hence, 3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender those expressing females, of the feminine gender and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender.
GEN'DER, To beget but engender is more generally used.
GEN'DER, To copulate to breed. Levit. 19.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
jen´dẽr ( ילד , yāladh , עבר , ‛ābhar ; γεννάω , gennáō ): "Gender" is an abbreviation of "engender." In Job 38:29 yāladh (common for "to bear," "to bring forth") is translated "gender" (after Wycliff), the Revised Version (British and American) "The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" margin "given it birth." In Job 21:10 we have ‛ābhar (either the Piel of ‛ābhar , "to pass over," etc., or of a separate word meaning "to bear," "to be fruitful"), translated "gendereth," "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not"; in Leviticus 19:19 , rābha‛ , "to lie down with," is used of cattle gendering. In Galatians 4:24 the King James Version we have "Mount Sinai, which gendereth ( gennaō , "to beget") to bondage," the Revised Version (British and American) "bearing children unto bondage" (like Hagar, Abraham's bondwoman), and in 2 Timothy 2:23 , which "gender strifes," i.e. beget them.
