Word Summary
enkyos: pregnant
Original Word: ἔγκυοςTransliteration: enkyos
Phonetic Spelling: (eng'-koo-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: pregnant
Meaning: pregnant
Strong's Concordance
pregnant
From en and the base of kuma; swelling inside, i.e. Pregnant -- great with child.
see GREEK en
see GREEK kuma
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1471: ἔγκυοςἔγκυος (
WH ἐνκυος, see
ἐν, III. 3.),
ἐγκυον, for the more usual
ἐγκύμων (from
ἐν and
κύω),
big with child, pregnant:
Luke 2:5. (
Herodotus 1, 5 etc.;
Diodorus 4, 2;
Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 33.)