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G616 ἀποκυέω (apokyéō)
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Quick Definition

ἀποκυέω v. I bring forth, give birth to

Strong's Definition

from 575 and the base of 2949; to breed forth, i.e. (by transference) to generate (figuratively)

KJV Usage: beget, produce

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb | κυέω (conceive, be pregant)

13.12 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · State

to cause, to give rise to, to give birth to to cause a state, with focus upon the process

JAS 1:15

13.87 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Exist

to bring into being, to cause to exist (a figurative extension of meaning of ἀποκυέω ‘to give birth to,’ not occurring in the NT) to be brought into being as something newly created

JAS 1:18

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀπο-κυέω, -@, OF ἀποκύω, (hence 8 pers. sing. pres. either ἀποκυεῖ [80 WII] or ἀποκύει, Jas. 1. 15; ef. W. 88 (84); B. 62 (54))3 1 aor. ἀπεκύησα ; (κύω. or κυέω, to be pregnant; cf. ἔγκυος) ; 10 bring forth from the womb, give birth to: τινά, Jas. i. 15; to produce, ibid. 18. (4 Mace. xv. 17; Dion. Hal. 1, 70; Plut., Leian., Ael. v. h. 5, 4; Hdian. 1, 5, 13 [5 ed. Bekk.]; 1, 4, 2 [1 ed. Bekk.].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀποκυέω apokyeō 2x

pr. to bring forth, as women; met. to generate, produce, Jas. 1:15; to generate by spiritual birth, Jas. 1:18*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** ἀπο-κυέω (Rec. -κύω), -ῶ

(< ἀπό, κυέω or κύω, to be pregnant), [in LXX: IV Mac 15:17*;]

prop., "the medical word for birth as the close of pregnancy" (Hort, Ja., 26 f.). In κοινή, "an ordinary syn. of τίκτω, but definitely 'perfectivised' (M, Pr., 111 ff.; MM, s.v.) by the ἀπό, and so implying safe delivery," to bring forth, give birth to: Ja 1:15, 18.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀποκυέω. BGU IT 665%-19 (i/A.p.) ἡτοιμάσθη αὐτῇ πάντα [π]ρὸς [τ]ὴν Aox[e]fav αὐταρκῶς, ἐρωτῶσι δὲ] καί, κύριε (sc. πάτερ), [ἢ] μήτηρ [αἸὐτοῦ, ὅπως ὁὀποκυήϊσήῃ οἱ... The word, accordingly, notwithstanding Hort’s attempt (on Jas 15) to apply it specially to cases of abnormal birth, would seem to have been an ordinary synonym of τίκτω, but definitely ‘‘ perfectivized ” by the ἀπό, and so implying delivery. For the simplex cf. Sy// 797° (ii/B.c.) τὸ παιδάριον ὃ ᾿Αννύλα κύει, 8023, 80327.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀποκυέω (apokueō) — to generate. ἀποκῠ-έω, bear young, bring forth, with accusative, [NT+4th c.BC+]:—passive, of the child, [Refs 1st c.AD+] (passive participle ἀποκυόμενα[Refs 1st c.AD+]

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