γεννάω | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

γεννάω

Definition

I beget, give birth to, produce

Erasmian

Modern

Root

γεννα

Frequency

1164

Forms

γεννήσω, ἐγέννησα, γεγέννηκα, γεγέννημαι, ἐγεννήθην

Cognates

Gen is a combining form meaning, "something produced."
Hydrogen produces water (u{dwr) as the result of burning.

Biblical Concordance

John 1:13	who were (egennēthēsan \| ἐγεννήθησαν \| aor pass ind 3 pl) born (egennēthēsan \| ἐγεννήθησαν \| aor pass ind 3 pl), not from human stock or from a physical impulse or by a husband’s decision, but by God.
John 3:3	Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born (gennēthē \| γεννηθῇ \| aor pass subj 3 sg) again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:4	Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born (gennēthēnai \| γεννηθῆναι \| aor pass inf ) when he is old? He cannot enter into his mother’s womb and be (gennēthēnai \| γεννηθῆναι \| aor pass inf ) born (gennēthēnai \| γεννηθῆναι \| aor pass inf ) a second time, can he?”
John 3:5	Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless one is born (gennēthē \| γεννηθῇ \| aor pass subj 3 sg) of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:6	What is born (gegennēmenon \| γεγεννημένον \| perf pass ptcp nom sg neut) of the flesh is flesh, and what is born (gegennēmenon \| γεγεννημένον \| perf pass ptcp nom sg neut) of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7	Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born (gennēthēnai \| γεννηθῆναι \| aor pass inf ) again.’
John 3:8	The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it is coming from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born (gegennēmenos \| γεγεννημένος \| perf pass ptcp nom sg masc) of the Spirit.”
John 8:41	You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to him, “We have (gegennēmetha \| γεγεννήμεθα \| perf pass ind 1 pl) not been (gegennēmetha \| γεγεννήμεθα \| perf pass ind 1 pl) born (gegennēmetha \| γεγεννήμεθα \| perf pass ind 1 pl) as a result of fornication; we have only one father, God himself.”
John 9:2	And his disciples questioned him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he (gennēthē \| γεννηθῇ \| aor pass subj 3 sg) was (gennēthē \| γεννηθῇ \| aor pass subj 3 sg) born (gennēthē \| γεννηθῇ \| aor pass subj 3 sg) blind?”
John 9:19	and asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) born (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) blind? How then does he now see?”
John 9:20	His parents answered, saying, “We know that this is our son and that he (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) was (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) born (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) blind;
John 9:32	Not since time began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born (gegennēmenou \| γεγεννημένου \| perf pass ptcp gen sg masc) blind.
John 9:34	They replied to him, saying, “You were (egennēthēs \| ἐγεννήθης \| aor pass ind 2 sg) born (egennēthēs \| ἐγεννήθης \| aor pass ind 2 sg) completely in sin, and would you lecture us?” So they threw him out.
John 16:21	When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come; but when the baby is born (gennēsē \| γεννήσῃ \| aor act subj 3 sg), she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a child has been born (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) into the world.
John 18:37	Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king! The reason for which I was born (gegennēmai \| γεγέννημαι \| perf pass ind 1 sg) and have come into the world, is that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Acts 2:8	And how do we hear, each of us in his own language to which he was born (egennēthēmen \| ἐγεννήθημεν \| aor pass ind 1 pl)?
Acts 7:8	And he gave him a covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham became (egennēsen \| ἐγέννησεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:20	At which time Moses was born (egennēthē \| ἐγεννήθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg), and he was beautiful before God. He was brought up for three months in his father’s house;
Acts 7:29	At this remark, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he had (egennēsen \| ἐγέννησεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) two sons.
Acts 13:33	that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising Jesus; as also in the second Psalm it is written, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten (gegennēka \| γεγέννηκα \| perf act ind 1 sg) you.’
Acts 22:3	“I am a Jewish man, born (gegennēmenos \| γεγεννημένος \| perf pass ptcp nom sg masc) in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strictness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God just as you all are today.
Acts 22:28	The commanding officer answered, “I obtained this citizenship with a large sum of money.” Paul answered, “But I was (gegennēmai \| γεγέννημαι \| perf pass ind 1 sg) even born (gegennēmai \| γεγέννημαι \| perf pass ind 1 sg) one.”
Romans 9:11	even before they were born (gennēthentōn \| γεννηθέντων \| aor pass ptcp gen pl masc) or had done anything either good or bad so that God’s purpose according to election might stand,
1 Corinthians 4:15	For though you have innumerable guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became (egennēsa \| ἐγέννησα \| aor act ind 1 sg) your father (egennēsa \| ἐγέννησα \| aor act ind 1 sg) in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Galatians 4:23	The son by the slave woman was (gegennētai \| γεγέννηται \| perf pass ind 3 sg) born (gegennētai \| γεγέννηται \| perf pass ind 3 sg) according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born as the result of promise.