γεννάω, -ῶ
(< γέννα, poët. for γένος), [in LXX chiefly for ילד;]
1. of the father, to beget: c. acc., Mt 1:1-16, Ac 7:8, 29; seq. ἐκ, Mt 1:3, 5, 6.
2. Of the mother, to bring forth, bear: Lk 1:13, 5723:29, Jo 16:21; εἰς δουλείαν, Ga 4:24. Pass.
(1) to be begotten: Mt 1:20;
(2) to be born: Mt 2:1, 419:1226:24, Mk 14:21, Lk 1:35, Jo 3:4, Ac 7:20, Ro 9:11, He 11:23; seq. εἰς, Jo 16:2118:37, II Pe 2:12; ἐν, Ac 2:822:3, (ἁμαρτίαις), Jo 9:34; ἀπό, He 11:12 (WH, mg., ἐγεν-); ἐκ, Jo 1:133:68:41; c. adj., τυφλὸς γ., Jo 9:2; [Ῥωμαῖος], Ac 22:28; κατὰ σάρκα: κ. πνεῦμα: Ga 4:29. Metaph.; μάχας, II Ti 2:23; ὑμᾶς ἐγέννησα, I Co 4:15, (ὅν), Phm 10; in quotation, Ps 2:7 (LXX), Ac 13:33, He 1:55:5; of Christians as begotten of God, born again: Jo 1:133:3, 5-8, I Jo 2:293:94:75:1, 4, 18 (cf. ἀνα-γεννάω); (Cremer, 146).