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)