Strong's Number 1080
Transliteration:
gennao
{ghen-nah'-o}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
1:665,114
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
begat 49, be born 39, bear 2, gender 2, bring forth 1, be delivered 1, misc 3
Total: 97
Definition:
- of men who fathered children
- to be born
- to be begotten
- of women giving birth to children
- metaph.
- to engender, cause to arise, excite
- in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone
- of God making Christ his son
- of God making men his sons through faith in Christ's work