1) source, origin
   1a) a book of one's lineage, i.e. in which his ancestry or
       progeny are enumerated
 2) used of birth, nativity
 3) of that which follows origin, viz. existence, life
    3a) the wheel of life (#Jas 3:6), other explain it, the wheel of
        human origin which as soon as men are born begins to run, i.e.
        its course of life