STRONGS G1077:
γενέσια,
-ων,
τά [cf. Winer's Grammar, 176 (166)] (from the adjective
γενέσιος from
γένεσις),
a birthday celebration, a birthday feast:
Mark 6:21;
Matthew 14:6; (Alciphron epistles 3, 18 and 55; Dio Cassius, 47, 18, etc.;
ἡ γενέσιος ἡμέρα, Josephus, Antiquities 12, 4, 7). The earlier Greeks used
γενέσια of
funeral commemorations, a festival commemorative of a deceased friend (Latin
feriae denicales), see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 103f; [
Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 184; Winers Grammar, 24 (23)]. Cf. Keim, ii., p. 516 [iv. 223 English translation].
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