King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1721
Transliteration: emphytos
Phonetic Spelling: (em'-foo-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: innate, implanted
Meaning: innate, implanted
ἔμφυτος (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.
Word Summary
emphytos: innate, implanted
Original Word: ἔμφυτοςTransliteration: emphytos
Phonetic Spelling: (em'-foo-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: innate, implanted
Meaning: innate, implanted
Strong's Concordance
engrafted, implantedFrom en and a derivative of phuo; implanted (figuratively) -- engrafted.
see GREEK en
see GREEK phuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.