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
Citing in TDNT: 1:665, 114
G1080
From a variation of G1085; 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.
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| c be born of | 13.56 |
| d cause to happen | 13.129 |
| b give birth | 23.52 |
| a beget | 23.58 |
| (γεννάω ἄνωθεν) be born again | 41.53 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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