| Lexical Summary enkentrizō: to take pride in, glory inOriginal Word: ἐγκεντρίζω Transliteration: 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 Concordancegraft 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 LexiconSTRONGS NT 1461: ἐγκεντρίζω ἐγκεντρίζω (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 | 



