Lexical Summary anagennaō: to beget again Original Word: ἀναγεννάωTransliteration: anagennaō Phonetic Spelling: (an-ag-en-nah'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to beget again Meaning: to beget again Strong's Concordance beget, cause to be born again.From ana and gennao; to beget or (by extension) bear (again) -- beget, (bear) X (again). see GREEK ana see GREEK gennao Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 313: ἀναγεννάωἀναγεννάω, (ῶ: 1 aorist ἀνεγέννησα; perfect passive ἀναγεγέννημαι; to produce again, beget again, beget anew; metaphorically: τινα, thoroughly to change the mind of one, so that he lives a new life and one conformed to the will of God, 1 Peter 1:3; passively ἐκ τίνος, ibid. 1:23. (In the same sense in ecclesiastical writings (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word). Among secular authors used by Josephus, Antiquities 4, 2, 1 τῶν ἐκ τοῦ στασιάζειν αὐτοῖς ἀναγεννωμένων (yet Bekker ἄν γενομένων) δεινῶν which originated.) |
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