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ἔμφυτος

émphytos · G1721 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. placed in, permanently established in, implanted

    (A figurative extension of meaning of ἔμφυτος ‘to be implanted,’ not occurring in the NT) To be permanently in a place, with the implication of development

    Examples

    James 1:21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

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
Placed in, permanently established in, implanted85.31
This adjective describes something firmly implanted or established within a person, used of James' instruction to receive the word implanted within with humility — "in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21).
Word family 16 words

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

φύω phýō · G5453 · to grow · 3×φυλή phylḗ · G5443 · tribe, nation, people · 31×φύσις phýsis · G5449 · nature, kind, class · 14×φυτεύω phyteúō · G5452 · to plant · 11×φυσιόω physióō · G5448 · to make proud, to make arrogant, to make haughty · 7×φύλλον phýllon · G5444 · leaf · 6×φυσικός physikós · G5446 · natural, naturally, by nature · 3×ἐκφύω ekphýō · G1631 · to sprout, to sprout leaves · 2×τελείωσις teleíōsis · G5050 · to make perfect, to perfect, causing perfection · 2×ἔμφυτοςémphytos · G1721συμφυλέτης symphylétēs · G4853 · fellow countryman · 1×σύμφυτος sýmphytos · G4854 · to be like, to be one with · 1×συμφύω symphýō · G4855 · to grow together with · 1×φυσικῶς physikōs · G5447 · natural, naturally, by nature · 1×φυσίωσις physíōsis · G5450 · pride, arrogance, feeling of self-importance · 1×φυτεία phyteía · G5451 · plant · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (see ἐν, III. 3), ἔμφυτον (ἐμφύω to implant), in secular authors (from Herodotus down)…
(see ἐν, III. 3), ἔμφυτον (ἐμφύω to implant), in secular authors (from Herodotus down) inborn, implanted by nature; cf. Grimm, Exeget. Hdb. on Sap. (xii. 10), p. 224; implanted by others' instruction: thus Jas 1:21 τόν ἔμφυτον λόγον, the doctrine implanted by your teachers (others by God; cf. Brückner in DeWette, or Huther at the passage), δέξασθε ἐν πραΰτητι, receive like mellow soil, as it were.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Be in a Place1 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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