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Genesis 3:16

Toward the Woman he has said, `She is causing to multiply, I am multiplying your inner-afflicted-one134 and your inner-conceiving-one,135 in sorrow you are begetting136 builders,137 and toward your man is your passion,138 and himself is comparing in-yourself.`139

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Strong’s #3205, yalad. To bring forth, generate. This does not mean give birth since it is used of fathers (see Gen. 5). The word “beget” is 12th century old English word for the father’s role in procreation. The NT uses the word gennaó (#G1080) for genealogies of father lineages. (See Matt. 1) which means procreate/generate. Derivative is genos #G1085 family stock/kind, race. See also gennéma #G1081 generated-kind/fruit. Hebrew has a word for conceive/become pregnant harah #2029, specific to women, but does not appear to have word specific to women giving birth.