Lexical Summary enkentrizō: to take pride in, glory in Original Word: ἐγκεντρίζωTransliteration: enkentrizō Phonetic Spelling: (eng-ken-trid'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to take pride in, glory in Meaning: to take pride in, glory in Strong's Concordance graft into. From en and a derivative of kentron; to prick in, i.e. Ingraft -- graff in(-to). see GREEK en see GREEK kentron Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1461: ἐγκεντρίζωἐγκεντρίζω (T WH ἐνκεντρίζω, see ἐν, III. 3): 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρισα; passive, 1 aorist ἐνεκεντρίσθην; 1 future ἐγκεντρισθήσομαι; to cut into for the sake of inserting a scion; to inoculate, ingraft, graft in, (Aristotle quoted in Athen. 14, 68 (p. 653 d.); Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 2, 5; Antoninus 11, 8): τινα, Romans 11:17, 19, 23, 24 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 5); in these passages Paul likens the heathen who by becoming Christians have been admitted into fellowship with the people for whom the Messianic salvation is destined, to scions from wild trees inserted into a cultivated stock; (cf. Beet on verse 24; B. D. under the word |