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# begotten

«begotten» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fathered** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

fathered

### part of speech

verb, past participle of beget

### meaning for a pupil

Born to a father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begotten/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say fathered or born.

### examples

- The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. (Torah LEV.18.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begotten/#x1)
- Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they may be your possession. (Torah LEV.25.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begotten/#x2)

### tests

manual 6; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.255/)
- [Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1033/)
- [and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.104/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «begotten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begotten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.