Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 1:686,117
Trench's Synonyms: xviii. παλιγγενεσία, ἀνακαίνωσις.
παλιγγενεσία palingenesía, pal-ing-ghen-es-ee'-ah; from G3825 and G1078; (spiritual) rebirth (the state or the act), i.e. (figuratively) spiritual renovation; specially, Messianic restoration:—regeneration.
The KJV translates Strong's G3824 in the following manner: regeneration (2x).
new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration
hence renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better. The word often used to denote the restoration of a thing to its pristine state, its renovation, as a renewal or restoration of life after death
the renovation of the earth after the deluge
the renewal of the world to take place after its destruction by fire, as the Stoics taught
the signal and glorious change of all things (in heaven and earth) for the better, that restoration of the primal and perfect condition of things which existed before the fall of our first parents, which the Jews looked for in connection with the advent of the Messiah, and which Christians expected in connection with the visible return of Jesus from heaven.
other uses
of Cicero's restoration to rank and fortune on his recall from exile
of the restoration of the Jewish nation after exile
of the recovery of knowledge by recollection
Strong's Number G3824 matches the Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesia),
which occurs 2 times in 2 verses
in the TR Greek.