Topic
Begotten
24 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 3:16ISBE
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- Genesis 4:18ISBE
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
- Deuteronomy 32:18ISBE
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
- Psalms 2:7ISBE
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
- Matthew 1:1–16ISBE
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;…
- Luke 1:13ISBE
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
- Luke 1:57ISBE
Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
- John 1:13ISBE
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- John 3:3ISBE
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
- Acts 13:33ISBE
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
- Romans 1:4ISBE
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- 1 Corinthians 4:15ISBE
For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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- Philemon 1:10 ISBE
- Hebrews 1:3 ISBE
- Hebrews 1:5 ISBE
- Hebrews 5:5 ISBE
- Hebrews 6:20 ISBE
- 1 Peter 1:23 ISBE
- 1 John 2:29 ISBE
- 1 John 3:9 ISBE
- 1 John 4:7 ISBE
- 1 John 5:1 ISBE
- 1 John 5:4 ISBE
- 1 John 5:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 28 references
be-got'-'-n (yaladh; "to bear," "bring forth," "beget"; denotes the physical relation of either parent to a child, Ge 3:16; 4:18): Used metaphorically of God's relation to Israel (De 32:18) and to the Messianic king (Ps 2:7); (gennao, "to beget," or "bear"): generally used of a father (Mt 1:1-16); more rarely of a mother (Lu 1:13,57); used metaphorically of causing or engendering moral and spiritual relations and states (1Co 4:15; Phm 1:10); of the new birth the Holy Spirit (Joh 3:3 ff). Men who obey and love God as sons are begotten of Him (Joh 1:13; 1Jo 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18; compare 1Pe 1:23). Used especially of God's act in making Christ His Son: "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee" (Ps 2:7) quoted in Ac 13:33 in reference to His resurrection (compare Ro 1:4). The same passage is cited (Heb 1:5) as proving Christ's filial dignity, transcending the angels in that "he hath inherited a more excellent name than they," i.e. the name of son; and again (Heb 5:5) of God conferring upon Christ the glory of the priestly office.
Commentators differ as to whether the act of begetting the Son in these two passages is
(a) the eternal generation, or
(b) the incarnation in time, or
(c) the resurrection and ascension.
The immediate context of Heb 1:5 (see Heb 1:3) seems to favor the last view (Westcott). The first view would not be foreign to the author's thought: with Heb 5:5 compare Heb 6:20, "a high priest forever" (Alford). The author of Heb thinks of the eternal and essential sonship of Christ as realized in history in His ascension to the "right hand of the Majesty" (Heb 1:3). And what is emphatic is the fact and status of sonship, rather than the time of begetting.
T. Rees
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.