1721. emphutos
Strong's Lexicon
emphutos: Implanted, engrafted

Original Word: ἐμφυτός
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: emphutos
Pronunciation: em-foo-tos
Phonetic Spelling: (em'-foo-tos)
Definition: Implanted, engrafted
Meaning: inborn, ingrown, congenital, natural, rooted, implanted.

Word Origin: Derived from the Greek verb ἐμφύω (emphyō), meaning "to implant" or "to engraft."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "emphutos," the concept of God's word being internalized can be related to passages such as Psalm 119:11, "I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (BSB), where the idea of internalizing God's word is evident.

Usage: The term "emphutos" is used to describe something that is implanted or engrafted, suggesting a deep, intrinsic connection or integration. In the context of the New Testament, it often refers to the Word of God being implanted in the hearts of believers, signifying a transformative and life-giving presence.

Cultural and Historical Background: In ancient Greek culture, the concept of something being "implanted" or "engrafted" was often used in agricultural contexts, such as grafting branches onto a tree. This imagery would have been familiar to the original audience, who lived in an agrarian society. The metaphor of grafting was also used in philosophical and rhetorical contexts to describe the integration of ideas or virtues into one's life.

HELPS Word-studies

1721 émphytos (from 1722 /en, "in" and 5453 /phýō, "germinate, grow, spring up") – properly, implant, bring into living union like with a successfully engrafted shoot; (figuratively) what is "planted" and hence "inborn, congenital, natural" (Souter), i.e. placed in ("established") which enables something to develop (used only in Js 1:21).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from emphuó (to implant)
Definition
innate, implanted
NASB Translation
implanted (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1721: ἔμφυτος

ἔμφυτος (see ἐν, III. 3), ἔμφυτον (ἐμφύω to implant), in secular authors (from Herodotus down) inborn, implanted by nature; cf. Grimm, Exeget. Hdb. on Sap. (xii. 10), p. 224; implanted by others' instruction: thus James 1:21 τόν ἔμφυτον λόγον, the doctrine implanted by your teachers (others by God; cf. Brückner in DeWette, or Huther at the passage), δέξασθε ἐν πραΰτητι, receive like mellow soil, as it were.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
engrafted, implanted

From en and a derivative of phuo; implanted (figuratively) -- engrafted.

see GREEK en

see GREEK phuo

Forms and Transliterations
εμφυτον έμφυτον ἔμφυτον emphuton emphyton émphyton
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Englishman's Concordance
James 1:21 Adj-AMS
GRK: δέξασθε τὸν ἔμφυτον λόγον τὸν
NAS: the word implanted, which is able
KJV: meekness the engrafted word,
INT: accept the implanted word which [is]

Strong's Greek 1721
1 Occurrence


ἔμφυτον — 1 Occ.

















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