Word Study: I have begotten
Greek: gennaō
give birth, in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life: Us I gave birth I am the author of your Christian life, 1 Corinthians 4:15; Philemon 1:10 (Sanhedr. fol. 19, 2 "If one teaches the son of his neighbor the law, the Scripture reckons this the same as though he had begotten him")