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Strong's #1471 - ἔγκυος
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- big with child, pregnant
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ἔγκῠος, ον, (κύω)
1. = ἐγκύμων, Hdt. 1.5, 6.131, Hp. Aph. 5.42, etc.; πῶλος ἡσυχίης ἔγκυος, of the Trojan horse, AP 9.156 (Antiphil.); γαστρὸς ἀπωσαμέναν μόρον ἔγκυον, of one dying in child-birth, Epigr Gr. 238 (Smyrna), cf. IG 12(7).301 (Amorgos).
2. of plants, Arist. HA 595b27.
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.)
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** ἔνκυος
(Rec. ἐγκ -, see ἐν ), -ον (- κύω , to conceive),
[in LXX: Sirach 42:10*;]
pregnant, big with child: Luke 2:5.†
ἔγκυος , see ἐνκ -.
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For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Luke 2:5) cf. BGU IV. 1104.21 (B.C. 8) ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ἔνκυος καθε ̣σ ̣τ ̣ηκεν η ̣̔ Διονυσάριον, P Oxy II. 267.20 (A.D. 36) ἐνκύου σ [ο ]ῦ οὔση [ς, ib. X. 1273.33 (A.D. 260) ἐὰ ]ν ̣ [δὲ ] καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ἀπαλλαγῆς ἔγκυος ᾖν (l. ᾖ) ἡ γαμουμένη, ";if at the time of the separation the bride should be pregnant."; See also Syll 802.14 (iii/B.C.) ἔγκυος δὲ γενομένα ἐγ γαστρὶ ἐφόρει τρία ἔτη and .12, .17.
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