Lexicon emphutos: innate, implanted Original Word: ἔμφυτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: emphutos Phonetic Spelling: (em'-foo-tos) Short Definition: inborn, ingrown, congenital, natural Definition: inborn, ingrown, congenital, natural, rooted, implanted. HELPS word-Studies 1721 émphytos (from 1722 /en, "in" and 5453 /phýō, "germinate, grow, spring up") – properly, implant, bring into living union like with a successfully engrafted shoot; (figuratively) what is "planted" and hence "inborn, congenital, natural" (Souter), i.e. placed in ("established") which enables something to develop (used only in Js 1:21). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom emphuó (to implant) Definitioninnate, implanted NASB Translationimplanted (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1721: ἔμφυτοςἔμφυτος (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 James 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.
Strong's engrafted, implanted From en and a derivative of phuo; implanted (figuratively) -- engrafted. see GREEK en see GREEK phuo |
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