Book of Genesis
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- noun
- /bʊk əv ˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/
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Libro del Génesis
- The Book of Genesis describes the story of Adam and Eve.
- commentary on the Book of Genesis
He's an aristocrat, educated Jew, very devout, who interprets the book of Genesis and he says, well, what does it mean?
- He's an aristocrat, educated Jew, very devout, who interprets the book of Genesis and he says, well, what does it mean?
- The next scene in the book of Genesis, they're at the tree.
- And Dershowitz was very interested in what was going on in the book of Genesis and these accounts of justice as a theorist about, about justice.
Examples
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Likewise, evangelical Christians, with the book of Genesis as their guide, held fast to the concept of a common humanity as descendants of Adam and Eve.
Academic text (2015) -
The book of Genesis tells us that the first descendant of Abraham to arrive in Egypt was his great-grandson, Joseph the son of Jacob.
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A reading from the book of Genesis.
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It's in the Book of Genesis.
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I would like to read to you from the book of Genesis.
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In the book of Genesis.
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We read about it in the book of Genesis.
Fiction book (1991) -
It says so in the book of Genesis.
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The Book of Genesis describes Noah as being uncovered.
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The last time I checked the figures, 25 percent of Americans believe in witches, 50 percent in ghosts, 50 percent in the devil, 50 percent believe that the Book of Genesis is literally true, 69 percent believe in angels, 87 percent believe Jesus was raised from the dead, and 96 percent believe in a god or a universal spirit.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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The first book of the Old Testament that tells how the world and first people began
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a fully compositional nominal phrase: 'book' (a published set of pages) + 'of' + 'Genesis' (the proper name of the first biblical book) denotes the book named Genesis. The genitive/of-construction is a standard, cross-linguistic way to name a book, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Book of Genesis comes from the Greek word Genesis, which means 'beginning' or 'origin'. Because this book tells the first stories about how the world and people began, it became the 'book' that explains the very start of the Bible.