STRONGS NUMBER G1471


Word Summary
enkyos: pregnant
Original Word: ἔγκυος
Transliteration: 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: ἔγκυος

ἔγκυος (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.)