Strong's #1080: gennao (pronounced ghen-nah'-o)
from a variation of 1085; to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate:--bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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gennaō
1) of men who fathered children
1a) to be born
1b) to be begotten
1b1) of women giving birth to children
2) metaphorically
2a) to engender, cause to arise, excite
2b) in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone
2c) of God making Christ his son
2d) of God making men his sons through faith in Christ' s work
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from a variation of G1085
Citing in TDNT: 1:665, 114
Usage:
This word is used 97 times:
John 1:13: "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will"
John 3:3: "unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see"
John 3:4: "How can a man be born when he is old? can he"
John 3:4: "mother's womb, and be born?"
John 3:5: "unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,"
John 3:6: " That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born"
John 3:6: "is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is"
John 3:7: "unto thee, Ye must be born again."
John 3:8: "it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."
John 8:41: "they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one"
John 9:2: "his parents, that he was born blind"
John 9:19: "ye say was born blind? how then doth he now"
John 9:20: "son, and that he was born blind:"
John 9:32: "that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind."
John 9:34: "unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou"
John 16:21: "is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no"
John 16:21: "joy that a man is born into the world."
John 18:37: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came"
Acts 2:8: "own tongue, wherein we were born?"
Acts 7:8: "of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him"
Acts 7:20: "which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and"
Acts 7:29: "the land of Midian, where he begat two sons."
Acts 13:33: "my Son, this day have I begotten thee."
Acts 22:3: "verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet"
Acts 22:28: "But I was free born."
Romans 9:11: "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or"
1 Corinthians 4:15: "Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel."
Galatians 4:23: "he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but"
Galatians 4:24: "the one from the mount Sinai, which engendereth to bondage, which"
Galatians 4:29: "But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him"
2 Timothy 2:23: "avoid, knowing that they do engender strifes."
Philemon 1:10: "son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:"
Hebrews 1:5: "son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I"
Hebrews 5:5: "Son, today have I begotten thee."
Hebrews 11:12: "Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead,"
Hebrews 11:23: "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents,"
2 Peter 2:12: "natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,"
1 John 2:29: "every one that doeth righteousness is born of him."
1 John 3:9: "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for"
1 John 3:9: "he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
1 John 4:7: "and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth"
1 John 5:1: "is the Christ is born of God: and every one"
1 John 5:1: "and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of"
1 John 5:1: "that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him."
1 John 5:4: "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:"
1 John 5:18: "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not;"
1 John 5:18: "sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself,"
