STRONGS G313:
ἀναγεννάω,
-ῶ: 1 aorist
ἀνεγέννησα; perfect passive
ἀναγεγέννημαι;
to produce again, beget again, beget anew; metaphorically:
τινά, 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
ἔκ τινος, 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
ἇν γενομένων]
δεινῶν which originated.)
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