*† παλινγενεσία (Rec. παλιγγ-), -ας, ἡ
(< πάλιν, γένεσις),
new birth, renewal, restoration, regeneration;
(a) of persons (Plut., Phil., al.), of spiritual regeneration, διὰ λουτροῦ παλινγενεστίας (gen. attr., v. Ellic., in l.), Tit 3:5;
(b) of the world, as in Stoics, Jewish Apocal., al. (v. Dalman, Words, 177 ff.), Mt 19:28.†