G1080 – gennao – γεννάω – to (give) birth, be born; fig. to regenerate, make new
- Strong’s ID:
- G1080
- Greek Word:
- γεννάω
- Transliteration:
- gennao
- Pronunciation:
- ghen-nah’-o
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Usage Count:
- 97
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- Find “gennao” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
1) active voice: to (give) birth
2) passive voice: to be born
2) figuratively: to regenerate, make new
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
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.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.