What does Begotten mean in the Bible?

First uses (KJV)

1. Genesis 5:4

   And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

2. Leviticus 18:11

   The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

3. Numbers 11:12

   Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

4. Deuteronomy 23:8

   The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

5. Judges 8:30

   And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

6. Job 38:28

   Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

7. Psalm 2:7

   I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8. Isaiah 49:21

   Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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