| 1. of men who fathered children
1) to be born 2) to be begotten 1b1. of women giving birth to children 2. metaph. 1) to engender, cause to arise, excite 2) in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone 3) of God making Christ his son 4) of God making men his sons through faith in Christ's work |