For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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γεννάω
Vocabulary form:
gennavw
Definition:
I beget, give birth to, produce
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
97
GK:
1164
Root:
genna
Forms:
gennhvsw, ejgevnnhsa, gegevnnhka, gegevnnhmai, ejgennhvqhn
Cognates:
Gen is a combining form meaning, "something produced."
Hydrogen produces water (u{dwr) as the result of burning.
Biblical Concordance
| Galatians 4:24 | This may be interpreted allegorically, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing (gennōsa | γεννῶσα | pres act ptcp nom sg fem) children (gennōsa | γεννῶσα | pres act ptcp nom sg fem) to be slaves; she is Hagar. |
| Galatians 4:29 | But just as at that time the one (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) who (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) was (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) born (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) according to the flesh persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. |
| 2 Timothy 2:23 | But avoid the foolish and uneducated speculations, knowing that they breed (gennōsin | γεννῶσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) quarrels. |
| Philemon 1:10 | I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became (egennēsa | ἐγέννησα | aor act ind 1 sg) while in prison. |
| Hebrews 1:5 | For to which of the angels did God ever say, “My Son are you! Today I have fathered (gegennēka | γεγέννηκα | perf act ind 1 sg) you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? |
| Hebrews 5:5 | So also Christ did not exalt himself to become high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have become your Father” (gegennēka | γεγέννηκα | perf act ind 1 sg); |
| Hebrews 11:12 | And so it was that from this one man, and he was already impotent, there were born (egennēthēsan | ἐγεννήθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the shore of the sea |
| Hebrews 11:23 | By faith Moses, when he was born (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc), was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was an extraordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. |
| 2 Peter 2:12 | But these people, like irrational animals, born (gegennēmena | γεγεννημένα | perf pass ptcp nom pl neut) creatures of instinct to be captured and destroyed, are ignorant of those whom they slander, and in their destruction will themselves also be destroyed, |
| 1 John 2:29 | If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) been (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) born (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) of him. |
| 1 John 3:9 | No one born (gegennēmenos | γεγεννημένος | perf pass ptcp nom sg masc) of God makes a practice of sinning, because God’s seed abides in him. He cannot keep on sinning, because he (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) has (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) been (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) born (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) of God. |
| 1 John 4:7 | Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) been (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) born (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) of God and knows God. |
| 1 John 5:1 | Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) been (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) born (gegennētai | γεγέννηται | perf pass ind 3 sg) of God, and everyone who loves the father (gennēsanta | γεννήσαντα | aor act ptcp acc sg masc) loves his child (gegennēmenon | γεγεννημένον | perf pass ptcp acc sg masc). |
| 1 John 5:4 | because everyone who has been born (gegennēmenon | γεγεννημένον | perf pass ptcp nom sg neut) of God conquers the world. And this is the victorious power that has conquered the world — our faith. |
| 1 John 5:18 | We know that everyone who has been born (gegennēmenos | γεγεννημένος | perf pass ptcp nom sg masc) of God does not continue to sin, but the one who was born (gennētheis | γεννηθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) of God protects him and the evil one will not harm him. |
Mnemonics
Similar to the words,
Similar to the words, "generation" or "genes".