Begat

Word BEGAT
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /biˈɡæt/

Definitions and meanings of "Begat"

What do we mean by begat?

An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

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The word "begat" in example sentences

Mary Magdalene inspires, these women say, because she was not a weakling -- the weeping Magdalene whose name begat the English word "maudlin" but a person of strength and character. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We gave you a hands-on look at Android last week, and now the mobile platform that Google begat is available in all its source-code glory from the Android Open Source Project. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Smart politics, in short, begat even better political messaging. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2010)

Shorter Jwest: 8 years of the NCLB, a bastard child begat from the previous admin, has been an epic failure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their next son was Seth and he married too and "begat" Enoch who married too and bore sons and daughters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cain on the other hand "begat" sons who married and "begat" others sons who married too. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Eve and Adam "begat" another son after they sent Cain away and after Abel was killed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I confess I nodded off during some of the "begat" chapters of the OT and the battle scenes of the BOM don't quite cut it in the age of "Saving Private Ryan", but I definitely took it all in. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Typically, these are the biblical literalists who insist that by counting through all those "begat"s you end up with the creation of the Earth happening April 1, 4004 BC ie, the Earth is now just over 6008 years old. ❋ Carlo Artieri (2006)

Cotton Mather, married twice, was father of fifteen children; the two wives of Benjamin Franklin's father bore seventeen; Roger Clap of Dorchester, Massachusetts, "begat" fourteen children by one wife; William Phipps, a governor of Massachusetts, had twenty-five brothers and sisters all by one mother. ❋ Carl Holliday (N/A)

N.B. "begat" (v. 3) has no object; the object is easily supplied. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

"The Daily Show" begat "The Colbert Report," in which Colbert plays a jingoistic, know-it-all, borderline bigot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since the earth was created in 4004 B.C. (right, like we know how long a "begat" is), and humanity was going to last exactly six thousand years before the Millennium, it stood to reason that Christ was going to return to earth in 1996. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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