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Example sentences for "begat"

Lexicographically close words:
began; begane; begann; beganne; begar; begause; begemmed; beget; begets; begetter
  1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and every one who loveth Him that begat loveth also Him that is begotten of Him.

  2. This Phenix begat Belus the secund, otherwys callit Methres, and he was fader to this Pygmaleon, and queyn Dido, otherwys nemmyt Elissa.

  3. This ilk Phenix also engendrit Philistenes, quhilk begat this Sycheus, otherwys callit Sicarbas, spous to this ilk Dido, and gret preste to Hercules.

  4. Of His own will begat He us with the Word of Truth.

  5. It stirs our pulses feebly, it helps us only very indirectly to learn that Attai begat Nathan and Nathan begat Zabad, or that Obed begat Jehu and Jehu begat Azariah, and so on for two or three hundred verses.

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

  7. Abraham was above a hundred years old, when he begat Isaac, &c.

  8. Abraham was above an hundred years when he begat Isaac; and was Sarah youthful?

  9. Kymbelinus, when he had governed Britain ten years, begat two sons, the elder named Guiderius, the other Arviragus.

  10. Guercha begat Uffa, who begat Tytillus, who begat Eni, who begat Edric, who begat Aldwulf, who begat Elric.

  11. And Joksham begat Dedan, and the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher (p.

  12. And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth (the Chatramites, in Hadramaut, p.

  13. The Master said, Heaven begat the mind in me; what can Huan T'ui[69] do to me?

  14. He said, When Heaven begat the people, the man that first understood was sent to waken those slow to understand, and the man that first woke was sent to waken those slow to wake.

  15. Since the day the Great Father begat it, descending in streams upon Earth; When the Seasons were hid in his loins, and the Earth lay recumbent, a wife, To receive in the searching and genital shower the 60 soft secret of life.

  16. Thus it is no light labour to war with the sons of Tyndarus, for a mighty pair are they, and mighty is he that begat them.

  17. Again, how shone renowned Berenice among the wise of womankind, how great a boon was she to them that begat her!

  18. The Bible record of him is as follows: "And Jared lived an hundred, sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch.

  19. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters; and all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years; and Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him.

  20. Arete is the name she is called by, and of the same parents is she as those who begat king Alcinous.

  21. And since he fills the whole of our life with fair order, he begat Asclepios(696) in the world, though even before the beginning of the world he had him by his side.

  22. And Poseidon, receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal woman, and settled them in a part of the island which I will proceed to describe.

  23. Moreover of the children of the foreigners that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye get, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land, and they shall be your permanent resource.

  24. Hard fate--and that too at the hands of those who begat it!

  25. Moreover of the children of the foreigners that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land, and they shall be your permanent resource.

  26. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land, and they shall be your possession.

  27. Moreover of the children of the stranger that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land, and they shall be your possessions.

  28. Remember Abraham, how he was a hundred when he begat Isaac, and that there is youth still for the aged.

  29. An adventurous voyage across the Sea of Darkness begat little satisfaction, if all there was to show for it consisted of men with tails or a single eye, or races of Amazons and cannibals.

  30. At least I hold in my hand the sword of one who begat my forefather hundreds of years ago, a certain Thorgrimmer who was great in his time.

  31. For I seem to see you far away amidst war and love and splendour, holding Wave-Flame aloft as did that Thorgrimmer who begat us.

  32. They may marry mortals, as a devil begat Caliban upon a witch; and not long ago the aEurooeincubusaEuro was very troublesome throughout Europe.

  33. The proclamation begat the usual array of parties for and against prerogative, in which our author includes the established clergy on the government side, and on the popular, the lawyers.

  34. The spirit which begat and established these claims, appeared equally in the dissensions which succeeded them, respecting the proprietary revenues.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "begat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.