begat

Produced an heir

Begat is the archaic past tense of beget, meaning to father or sire.

It appears most famously in biblical genealogies: Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob.

The word sounds antiquated outside religious or deliberately archaic contexts.

Modern English prefers begot.

biblical

Genesis

First biblical book

AdamFirst created man
EveGenesis matriarch
AbrahamFirst Hebrew patriarch

Isaac · Jacob · Noah · Japheth · Cain · Abel · Seth · Enoch · Methuselah · Sarah

genealogy

lineage

Descent from progenitors

ancestryFamily line of descent
descendantsThose who come after
progenyOne's biological descendants

forebears · progenitors · bloodline · pedigree · dynasty · succession · scions · posterity · offspring · heirs

procreation

sire

Male animal parent

fatherMale parent
conceiveForm a mental notion
breedCultivated variety of animal

reproduce · spawn · offspring · progeny · issue · birth · fertilization · generation · multiply · engender

causation

engender

Cause to arise

spawnAquatic eggs or generate
produceMake or manufacture
createCause to exist

originate · generate · inaugurate · precipitate · instigate · occasion · provoke · kindle · sow

Categories

Archaismsthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
Bible Wordsthou, thee, thy, thine, unto
Biblical Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
archaic verbsdost, doth, hast, hath, shalt
archaic wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, tis

Opposites

generative action

begatslew

Large quantity

killed · destroyed · ended · murdered · terminated

register/style

begatknocked up

Slang for impregnated

fathered · had · sired · spawned · made

genealogical role

Had as origin

Family

beget, begetter, misbegotten, begetting, begets, begotten, begot, begetters

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