ἐγκεντρίζω
enkentrizō · graft
Greek word · Strong’s number G1461 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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enkentrizō (ἐγκεντρίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “graft”.
Insert a branch into another tree so that it grows from it.
How to say it
en·ken·tri·zō
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To set a branch into another tree so it lives from its root.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- be grafted ×3
- were grafted ×2
- graft ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the root of the richness of the olive tree,
- Romans 11:19
You will say then, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
- Romans 11:23
And they too, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.
- Romans 11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
And 2 more times.