Genesis

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Contents

1 English
2 Dutch
- 2.1 Proper noun
3 German
- 3.1 Noun
  - 3.1.1 Synonyms
- 3.2 Proper noun
  - 3.2.1 Abbreviations
  - 3.2.2 Synonyms
4 Swedish
- 4.1 Proper noun
  - 4.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] English

Genesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“Genesis” on Wikisource. Wikisource
Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (genesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).

[edit] Proper noun

Genesis

The first of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the first book in the Torah.
A female given name of American usage since the 1980s.
The video game console Mega Drive by Sega.

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Gen.

[edit] Translations

the book of the Bible

Arabic : التكوين (ar) (al-takwiin) m., سفر التكوين (ar) (sifr al-takwiin) m.
Armenian: Ծննդոց (hy) (Çnndoc')
Belarusian: Кніга Быцця (be) (Kníha Byccjá) f., Быццё (be) (Byccjó) n.
Bulgarian: Битие (bg) (Bitie) n.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 創世記 (zh), 创世记 (zh) (chuàngshìjì)
Dutch: Genesis (nl)
Finnish: 1.Mooseksen kirja (fi)
French: Genèse (fr) f.
German: Genesis (de) f., 1. Buch Mose (de) n. (das erste Buch Mose)
Greek: Γένεσις (el) (Génesis)
Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית (he) (b'reishít) m.
Icelandic: 1. Mósebók (Fyrsta Mósebók)
Irish: Geineasas (ga) m., Leabhar Gheineasas (ga) m.
Japanese: 創世記 (ja) (そうせいき, sōseiki)

Korean: 창세기 (ko) (changsegi) (創世記 (ko))
Latin: Liber Genesis
Macedonian: Битие (mk) (Bítie)
Maltese: Ktieb il-Ġenesi
Manx: lioar Genesis (gv) m.
Polish: Księga Rodzaju (pl) f.
Portuguese: Gênesis (pt)
Russian: Книга Бытия (ru) (Kníga Bytijá) f., Бытие (ru) (Bytijé) n., первая книга Моисея (ru) (pérvaja kníga Moiséja) f.
Slovene: Geneza
Spanish: el Génesis
Swedish: Första Moseboken (sv), Genesis (sv)
Tajik: Хуруҷ (tg) (Huruj)
Ukrainian: Книга Буття (uk) (Knýha Buttjá) f., Буття (uk) (Buttjá) n.
Vietnamese: Sách Sáng thế (vi), Sáng thế ký (vi)

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signees

[edit] Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Genesis

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Genesis

Genesis (book of the Bible)

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[edit] Noun

Genesis f.

genesis

[edit] Synonyms

Genese f.

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Genesis f.

Genesis, the first book of the Bible.

[edit] Abbreviations

Gen (Gen.)

[edit] Synonyms

1. Buch Mose

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Proper noun

Genesis

Genesis.

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Första Moseboken

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