Offspring; by analogy, produce (literally or figuratively)
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The local G1081 alignment gathers Greek noun forms that describe what is brought forth or produced. With the double consonant, the word identifies offspring and appears in the severe address “brood of vipers,” where John the Baptist and Jesus confront people whose conduct displays dangerous kinship with poisonous opposition to God’s ways.
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The local G1081 alignment gathers Greek noun forms that describe what is brought forth or produced. With the double consonant, the word identifies offspring and appears in the severe address “brood of vipers,” where John the Baptist and Jesus confront people whose conduct displays dangerous kinship with poisonous opposition to God’s ways.
The BSB source-word alignment has 8 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include fruit (3), You brood (3), [You] brood (1), harvest (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 3:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (4), Luke (2), 2 Corinthians (1), Mark (1).
The local G1081 alignment gathers Greek noun forms that describe what is brought forth or produced. With the double consonant, the word identifies offspring and appears in the severe address “brood of vipers,” where John the Baptist and Jesus confront people whose conduct displays dangerous kinship with poisonous opposition to God’s ways. With the single consonant in other aligned passages, the related form refers to the fruit of the vine or an agricultural harvest.
The shared conceptual center is an outcome or product, but context determines whether the referent is offspring, fruit, harvest, or a figurative result. Teachers should preserve the spelling and passage distinction while explaining the local alignment. The word does not teach that moral character is biologically inherited, nor does it permit abusive labeling detached from the prophetic confrontations in which the phrase occurs.
The Gospel witnesses use these aligned forms for a condemning offspring image and for the fruit of the vine, while Paul uses produce language for a harvest of righteousness.
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
John’s “brood of vipers” address confronts religious hearers who approach baptism without the repentance and fruit demanded in the following verses.
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
Jesus names the fruit of the vine while looking beyond the meal toward drinking it new with his disciples in the Father’s kingdom.
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
Paul uses agricultural provision and increase to describe God supplying generosity and enlarging the harvest produced by righteous practice.
Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Luke’s parallel places the viper image before a call for fruit consistent with repentance and concrete economic and vocational responses.
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Greek word. Offspring or product, often used pejoratively for spiritual descendants of evil or wickedness.
Offspring or product, often used pejoratively for spiritual descendants of evil or wickedness.
(γεννάω), [in LXX chiefly for תְּבוּאָה ;] offspring of men or animals: ἐχιδνῶν, Mat.3:7 12:34 23:33, Luk.3:7 (and elsewhere in Rec. for γένημα, which see).
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
9 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
offspring, child, fruit
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
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G1081 invites readers to ask what is being brought forth, but it does not allow every occurrence to be flattened into one metaphor. In the preaching of John and Jesus, “brood of vipers” is a judicially charged confrontation that exposes religious confidence unaccompanied by repentance and faithful fruit. At the supper, fruit of the vine remains a concrete drink joined to Jesus’ kingdom promise.
In 2 Corinthians, harvest language describes the result God supplies and increases through generous righteousness. The local Strong’s alignment makes these passages discoverable together, while responsible interpretation keeps their forms and contexts distinct. The theological bridge is therefore modest and text-governed: origins, actions, and outcomes matter, yet no spelling or derivation can prove a person’s moral nature.
Repentance, kingdom fellowship, and generosity must be taught from their passages rather than manufactured from the lexeme alone.
Matt.3.7
The governed word table aligns both γεννήματα, with a double nu and the sense of offspring or brood, and γένημα forms, with a single nu and the sense of fruit or produce, under G1081. Context and spelling must remain visible.
Old Testament wisdom and prophecy also evaluate lives and communities by their fruit, while treating literal vineyard and harvest language on its own terms. The New Testament develops that pattern through calls for fruit consistent with repentance, Jesus’ kingdom meal promise, and Paul’s account of a righteousness harvest supplied by God.