to beget
ya.lad describes generating offspring, whether a parent begets or bears children or children are born.
The sampled uses most often identify a parent’s production of children, particularly in genealogical statements; they also describe children as born to a parent and, less often, the immediate circumstances of birth. The supplied forms include active, passive, and participial uses, while the clauses consistently concern parentage, offspring, or birth.
Senses in use
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A parent produces children · dominant
Genealogical clauses repeatedly use the term to link a parent with named descendants: in 1 Chronicles 2:10 the APB renders Ram and Amminadab as successive fathers, and in 1 Chronicles 2:11 it continues the line through Nahshon and Salmon. The same use includes women bearing named children, as in 1 Chronicles 2:19, and David fathering sons and daughters in 1 Chronicles 14:3.
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Being born to a parent · common
Passive forms present offspring as the recipients of birth: in 1 Chronicles 1:19 the APB renders two sons as born to Eber, while 2 Samuel 14:27 reports sons and a daughter born to Absalom. Participial forms likewise identify children by their birth, as in 1 Chronicles 14:4 and 1 Chronicles 22:9.
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Birth and its immediate setting · occasional
Some clauses focus on childbirth rather than a genealogical link. In 1 Kings 3:17 the APB renders a woman’s statement that she gave birth in the house; in 1 Samuel 4:19 it places giving birth amid labor pains; and 2 Kings 19:3 uses a noun form in the image of children coming to birth without strength to bring forth.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB variously renders the surrounding clauses with “begot,” “bore,” “fathered,” “were born,” and “gave birth.” These renderings confirm the clauses’ parentage and birth contexts without assigning every English expression directly to the lemma.