Definitions for begat

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begat be·gat

Spelling: [bih-gat]

IPA: /bɪˈgæt/

Begat is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in begat (abegt).

Definitions for begat

verb

1. simple past tense of beget.

plural noun

1. genealogical lists, especially those in the Old Testament.

verb (used with object)

1. (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
2. to cause; produce as an effect:

Origin of begat

noun plural use of begat

Examples for begat

This, I trow, was done by those evil spirits that begat them, for the injury of the Goths.

But I am utterly wretched, for I begat the best of sons in Troy, and none of them is left.

And James said: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth."

Sailors married queens and begat princesses and all the rest of it.

Carry they not the true image and superscription of the father which begat them?

That these gifts are purely of God's grace he also implies: He begat us again.

Alas, whence do they come who begat them, from what have they issued out?

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Why betray them when they were doomed to be stifled in the breast that begat them?

Here he begat a family consisting of five pairs of twin male children.