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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #313 - ἀναγεννάω

Transliteration

anagennáō

Phonetics

an-ag-en-nah'-o

Origin

from (G303) and (G1080)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

1:673,114

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to produce again, be born again, born anew
metaph. to have one's mind changed so that he lives a new life and one conformed to the will of God

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (3)

1 Peter 3

BSB (2)

1 Peter 2

CSB (2)

1 Peter 2

ESV (2)

1 Peter 2

KJV (3)

1 Peter 3

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

1 Peter 4

N95 (4)

1 Peter 4

NAS (7)

1 Peter 4

NLT (2)

1 Peter 6

WEB (3)

1 Peter 3

YLT (2)

1 Peter 2

ASV (3)

again 1

begat 1

having been begotten again 1

BSB (2)

for you have been born again 1

has given us new birth 1

CSB (2)

again 1

birth 1

ESV (2)

born again 2

KJV (3)

again 2

begotten 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

again 2

born 2

N95 (4)

again 2

born 2

NAS (7)

again 2

be 1

born 2

caused 1

to 1

NLT (2)

again 2

WEB (3)

became 1

father again 1

having been born again 1

YLT (2)

again 1

being begotten again 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

ANT

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

BEZ

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

BGB

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

BMT

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

BYZ

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

ELZ

V-AAPNSM 1

V-XPPNPM 1

NA26

V-AAPNSM 1

V-XPPNPM 1

SBL

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

SCV

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

STV

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

TIS

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

V-AAP-NSM 1

V-RPP-NPM 1

TRG

V-AAPNSM 1

V-XPPNPM 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀναγενν-άω,

1. beget anew, regenerate, 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Peter 1:23 : — Pass., prob. in Corp.Herm. 13.1.

2. metaph., arouse afresh, ἀ. πάλιν κακά Phld. Ir. p.18W.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀναγεννάω, (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.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

**† ἀνα -γεννάω , -ῶ ,

[in LXX: Sir prol.17 א * (ΑΒ א c παρα -)*;]

to beget again: metaph., of spiritual birth, 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Peter 1:23 (cf. Cremer, 147; MM, VGT, s.v.).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

The word, as well as the thought, is found in the Hermetic writings, e.g. Reitzenstein Poimandres p. 339.11 ἀγνοῶ, ὦ τρισμέγιστε, ἐξ οἵας μήτρας ἀνεγεννήθης, σπορᾶς δὲ ποίας : cf. Bauer on John 3:8 (in HZNT) and Reitzenstein Die hell. Mysterienreligionen pp. 26, 31.

List of Word Forms

αναγεγεννημενοι αναγεγεννημένοι ἀναγεγεννημένοι αναγεννησας αναγεννήσας ἀναγεννήσας anagegennemenoi anagegenneménoi anagegennēmenoi anagegennēménoi anagennesas anagennēsas anagennḗsas