Lexical Summary ektrōma: untimely birth, miscarriage Original Word: ἔκτρωμαTransliteration: ektrōma Phonetic Spelling: (ek'-tro-mah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: untimely birth, miscarriage Meaning: untimely birth, miscarriage Strong's Concordance untimely birth, miscarriageFrom a comparative of ek and titrosko (to wound); a miscarriage (abortion), i.e. (by analogy) untimely birth -- born out of due time. see GREEK ek Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1626: ἔκτρωμαἔκτρωμα, ἐκτρωτος, τό (ἐκτιτρώσκω to cause or to suffer abortion; like ἔκβρωμα from ἐκβιβρώσκω), an abortion, abortive birth; an untimely birth: 1 Corinthians 15:8, where Paul likens himself to an ἔκτρωμα, and in 1 Corinthians 15:9 explains in what sense: that he is as inferior to the rest of the apostles as an immature birth comes short of a mature one, and is no more worthy of the name of an apostle than an abortion is of the name of a child. (Numbers 12:12; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Job 3:16; in Greek first used by Aristotle, de gen. an. 4, 5, 4 (p. 773b, 18); but, as Phrynichus shows, p. 208f, Lob. edition (288f, edition Rutherford), ἀμβλωμα and ἐξαμβλωμα are preferable; (Huxtable in Expositor for Apr. 1882, p. 277ff; Lightfoot Ignatius ad Rom. 9 [ET], p. 230 f).) |
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