adjective
enkuas
Strong’sG1471
with child, pregnant
stem enku-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἔγκυος, v.s. ἐνκ-.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1471 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(κύω) ={ἐγκύμων}, Refs 5th c.BC+; πῶλος ἡσυχίης ἔγκυος, of the Trojan horse, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 of plants, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | enkuos | enkuas | enkuem | enkuois | enkuais | enkueim |
| object accusative | enkuon | enkuan | enkuoin | enkuain | ||
| direct address vocative | enkuor | enkuar | enkuoir | enkuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | enkuou | enkuau | enkueu | enkuoiu | enkuaiu | enkueiu |
| to, for dative | enkuo | enkua1×ἐγκύῳ | enkue | enkuoi | enkuai | enkuei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
enku is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
enkua“pregnant”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 2:5“pregnant”… sun Mariam ta mnēsteuorēnta auto, arōnta enkua.… to register with Mary, who was pledged to him in marriage and was expecting a …