Word 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.)