King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1461
Transliteration: enkentrizō
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-ken-trid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take pride in, glory in
Meaning: to take pride in, glory in
ἐγκεντρίζω (T WH ἐνκεντρίζω, see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρισα; passive, 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρίσθην; 1 future ἐγκεντρισθήσομαι; to cut into for the sake of inserting a scion; to inoculate, ingraft, graft in, (Aristotle quoted in Athen. 14, 68 (p. 653 d.); Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 2, 5; Antoninus 11, 8): τινα, Romans 11:17, 19, 23, 24 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 5); in these passages Paul likens the heathen who by becoming Christians have been admitted into fellowship with the people for whom the Messianic salvation is destined, to scions from wild trees inserted into a cultivated stock; (cf. Beet on verse 24; B. D. under the word).
Word Summary
enkentrizō: to take pride in, glory in
Original Word: ἐγκεντρίζωTransliteration: enkentrizō
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-ken-trid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take pride in, glory in
Meaning: to take pride in, glory in
Strong's Concordance
graft into. From en and a derivative of kentron; to prick in, i.e. Ingraft -- graff in(-to).
see GREEK en
see GREEK kentron
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1461: ἐγκεντρίζωἐγκεντρίζω (T WH ἐνκεντρίζω, see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρισα; passive, 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρίσθην; 1 future ἐγκεντρισθήσομαι; to cut into for the sake of inserting a scion; to inoculate, ingraft, graft in, (Aristotle quoted in Athen. 14, 68 (p. 653 d.); Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 2, 5; Antoninus 11, 8): τινα, Romans 11:17, 19, 23, 24 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 5); in these passages Paul likens the heathen who by becoming Christians have been admitted into fellowship with the people for whom the Messianic salvation is destined, to scions from wild trees inserted into a cultivated stock; (cf. Beet on verse 24; B. D. under the word