Word Summary
gennētos: begotten, born
Original Word: γεννητόςTransliteration: gennētos
Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-nay-tos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: begotten, born
Meaning: begotten, born
Strong's Concordance
they that are born.
From gennao; born -- they that are born.
see GREEK gennao
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1084: γεννητόςγεννητός,
γεννητη,
γεννητον (
γεννάω),
begotten, born (often in
Plato;
Diodorus 1, 6ff); after the Hebrew (
אִשָּׁה יְלוּד,
Job 14:1, etc.),
γεννητοι γυναικῶν (
Buttmann, 169 (147),
born of women) is a periphrasis for
men, with the implied idea of weakness and frailty:
Matthew 11:11;
Luke 7:28.