γεννάω

gennavw gennavw,
gevnnw; future
gennhvsw; 1 aorist
ejgevnnhsa; perfect
gegevnnhkav; (passive, present
gennavomai,
gennwmai); perfect
gegevnnhmai; 1 aorist
ejgennhvqhn; (from
genna'/, poetic for
gevno"); in Greek writings from Pindar down; in the Septuagint for dl'y:; to beget;1. properly: of men begetting children, ; ,; followed by
ejk with the genitive of the mother, ,,; more rarely of women giving birth to children, ,; ; ;
eij"
douleivan to bear a child unto bondage, that will be a slave, ((Xenophon, de rep. Lac. 1, 3); Lucian, de sacrif. 6; Plutarch, de liber. educ. 5; others; the Septuagint ; , etc.). Passive, to be begotten:
tov
ejn
aujth'/
gennhqevn that which is begotten in her womb, ; to be born: , (Winer's Grammar, 266 (250); Buttmann, 203 (176)); ; ; ; ; ; (); ; ; with the addition
eij"
tovn
kovsmon, ; followed by
ejn with the dative of place, ;
ajpov
tivno", to spring from one as father, (L WH marginal reading
ejgennhvqhsan see Tdf. at the passage);
ejk
tivno" to be born of a mother, ;
ejk
porneiva", ;
ejx
aiJmavtwn,
ejk
qelhvmato"
ajndrov", ;
ejk
th'"
sarkov", (Rec.^elz
gegenhmevnon);
ejn
aJmartivai"
o{lo", (see
aJmartiva, 2 a.);
eij"
tiv, to be born for something, ; (Tdf.
gegenhmevna so Rec.^st ^bez); with an adjective:
tuflov"
gegevnnhmai, ,f,32;
@Rwmai'o" to be supplied, ;
th'/
dialevktw/,
ejn
hJ
ejgennhvqhmen, ;
gennhqeiv"
katav
savrka begotten or born according to (by) the working of natural passion;
katav
pneu'ma according to (by) the working of the divine promise, , cf. .2. metaphorically, a. universally, to engender, cause to arise, excite:
mavca", (
blabhn,
luvphn, etc. in Greek writings). b. in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life:
uJma'"
ejgevnnhsa I am the author of your Christian life, ; (Sanhedr. fol. 19, 2 "If one teaches the son of his neighbor the law, the Scripture reckons this the same as though he had begotten him"; (cf. Philo, leg. ad Gaium sec. 8)). c. after , it is used of God making Christ his son; a. formally to show him to be the Messiah (
uiJovn
tou'
Qeou'), viz. by the resurrection: . b. to be the author of the divine nature which he possesses (but compare the commentaries on the passages that follow): ; . d. pecu