παλινγενεσία (Rec. παλιγγ-), -ας, ἡ (πάλιν, γενεσις),
new birth, renewal, restoration, regeneration; (a) of persons (Plut, Phil, al.), of spiritual regeneration, διὰ λουτροῦ παλινγενεστίας (genitive attr, see Ellic, in l), Tit.3:5; (b) of the world, as in Stoics, Jewish Apocal, al. (see Dalman,
Words, 177 ff.), Mat.19:28. (
AS)