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ἔγκυος

énkyos · G1471 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. pregnant, to be pregnant

    To be in a state of pregnancy

    Examples

    Luke 2:5 in order to register along with Mary, who was betrothed to him, and was pregnant.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Pregnant, to be pregnant23.50
In Luke 2:5, Mary is described as pregnant while traveling with Joseph to register for the census, this adjective naming the physical condition of carrying a child in the womb.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κῦμα kŷma · G2949 · wave, billow, surge · 4×ἀποκυλίω apokylíō · G617 · to cause to roll away, to roll away · 4×κυλλός kyllós · G2948 · crippled · 4×ἀποκυέω apokyéō · G616 · to cause, to give rise to, to give birth to · 2×προσκυλίω proskylíō · G4351 · to roll up to, to roll against · 2×ἔγκυοςénkyos · G1471κύλισμα kýlisma · G2946 · to roll about, to wallow · 1×κυλιόω kylióō · G2947 · to roll about, to wallow · 1×κύμβαλον kýmbalon · G2950 · cymbals · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH ἐνκυος, see ἐν, III. 3.), ἐγκυον, for the more usual ἐγκύμων (from ἐν and κύω), big…
(WH ἐνκυος, see ἐν, III. 3.), ἐγκυον, for the more usual ἐγκύμων (from ἐν and κύω), big with child, pregnant: Lk 2:5. (Herodotus 1, 5 etc.; Diodorus 4, 2; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 33.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Birth, Procreation1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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