Difference between revisions of "Kind"

<div> '''1: '''''Γένος''''' ''' (Strong'S #1085 — Noun Neuter — genos — ghen'-os ) </div> <p> akin to ginomai, "to become," denotes (a) "a family," &nbsp;Acts 4:6 , "kindred;" &nbsp;Acts 7:13 , RV, "race" (AV, "kindred"); &nbsp;Acts 13:26 , "stock;" (b) "an offspring," &nbsp;Acts 17:28; &nbsp;Revelation 22:16; (c) "a nation, a race," &nbsp;Mark 7:26 , RV, "race" (AV, "nation"); &nbsp;Acts 4:36 , RV "(a man of Cyprus) by race," AV, "of the country (of Cyprus);" genos does not mean "a country;" the word here signifies "parentage" (Jews had settled in [[Cyprus]] from, or even before, the reign of [[Alexander]] the Great); &nbsp;Acts 7:19 , RV, "race" (AV, "kindred"); &nbsp;Acts 18:2,24 , RV, "by race" (AV, "born"); &nbsp;2—Corinthians 11:26 , "countrymen;" &nbsp;Galatians 1:14 , RV, "countrymen" (AV, "nation"); &nbsp;Philippians 3:5 , "stock;" &nbsp;1—Peter 2:9 , RV, "race" (AV, "generation"); (d) "a kind, sort, class," &nbsp;Matthew 13:47 , "kind;" in some mss. in &nbsp;Matthew 17:21 , AV, "kind;" &nbsp;Mark 9:29 , "kind;" &nbsp;1—Corinthians 12:10,28 , "kinds" (AV, "diversities"); &nbsp;1—Corinthians 14:10 (ditto). See [[Beget]] , B. </p> <div> '''2: '''''Φύσις''''' ''' (Strong'S #5449 — Noun [[Feminine]] — phusis — foo'-sis ) </div> <p> among its various meaning denotes "the nature, the natural constitution or power of a person or thing," and is translated "kind" in &nbsp;James 3:7 (twice), "kind" (of beasts etc.), and "(man)kind," lit., "human kind." See [[Nature]] , Natural. </p> &nbsp;James 1:18&nbsp;1—Corinthians 15:37&nbsp;2—Corinthians 6:13

<p> KIND, n. </p> 1. [[Race]] genus generic class as in mankind or humankind. In technical language, kind answers to genus. 2. Sort, in a sense more loose than genus as, there are several kinds of eloquence and of style, many kinds of music, many kinds of government, various kinds of architecture or of painting, various kinds of soil, &c. 3. [[Particular]] nature as laws most perfect in their kind. 4. Natural state produce or commodity, as distinguished from money as taxes paid in kind. 5. Nature natural propensity or determination. <p> Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, </p> <p> Are led by kind t' admire your fellow creature. </p> 6. [[Manner]] way. Little used. 7. Sort. He spoke with a kind of scorn or contempt. <p> KIND, a. </p> 1. [[Disposed]] to do good to others, and to make them happy by granting their requests, supplying their wants or assisting them in distress having tenderness or goodness of nature benevolent benignant. <p> God is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil. &nbsp;Luke 6 . </p> <p> Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. &nbsp;Ephesians 4 </p> 2. Proceeding from tenderness or goodness of heart benevolent as a kind act a kind return of favors.