The process of inoculating fruit-trees (Romans 11:17-24). It is peculiarly appropriate to olive-trees. The union thus of branches to a stem is used to illustrate the union of true believers to the true Church. 1. (n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

2. (n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

3. (n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

4. (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

5. (n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

6. (n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

7. (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

8. (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

GRAFT

graft (egkentrizo; the Revised Version (British and American) "graft"; the King James Version, "graff"): The word occurs 6 times in Romans 11. Paul assumed that those living about Rome were familiar with the process of grafting olive trees, for olive culture had been adopted by the Greeks and Romans in Paul's time. The wild olive trees (Arabic colloquial, zeitun berri) are cut back, slits made on the freshly sawed branch ends, and two or three grafts from a cultivated olive (Arabic colloquial, zeitun jouwi) are inserted in such a way that the bark of the scion and of the branch coincide. The exposed ends are smeared with mud made from clay, and then bound with cloth or date straw, which is held by thongs made from the bark of young mulberry branches. The fruit thus obtained is good. Wild olives cannot be made cultivated olives by engrafting, as Paul implies (Romans 11:24), but a wild olive branch thus grafted would thrive. So Gentiles would flourish spiritually when grafted into the fullness of God's mercy, first revealed to the world through Israel.

James A. Patch

1461b. egkentrizo -- to ingraft, graft in
... 1461a, 1461b. egkentrizo. 1462 . to ingraft, graft in. Transliteration:
egkentrizo Short Definition: grafted. Word Origin from en ...
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1461. egkentrizo -- to take pride in, glory in
... to take pride in, glory in. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: egkentrizo Phonetic
Spelling: (eng-ken-trid'-zo) Short Definition: I graft in Definition: I ...
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Abide
... ABIDE. Abide in Me, and I in You"John 15..4. When a new graft is placed in a vine
and it abides there, there is a twofold process that takes place. ...
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The vine and the Branches
... theory of sanctification says: "But if I want a tree wholly made good I take it
when young and, cutting the stem off on the ground, I graft just where it ...
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How Love Spreads Its Excellence Over the Other virtues, Perfecting ...
... I Have seen, says Pliny, a tree at Tivoli grafted in all the fashions that one can
graft, and bearing all sorts of fruit; for upon one branch there were ...
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The Work of Regeneration.
... But let the gardener graft a finely flavored pear upon the wild pear, or a beautiful
double tea rose upon the wild rose, and the former will yield luscious ...
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By a Comparison Drawn from the Wild Olive-Tree, Whose Quality but ...
... if it remain in its former condition, viz., a wild olive, it is "cut off, and cast
into the fire;" [4513] but if it takes kindly to the graft, and is changed ...
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The vine and the Branches.
... But when we turn to the cutting of the branch, we see reluctance and vacillation
and much to remind us that, in the graft we now speak of, the Husbandman has ...
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Faustus Argues that if the Apostles Born under the Old Covenant ...
... cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted
in; for God is able to graft them in again. For if ...
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Psalm LXVI.
... Before there had been cut off Jews, graffed in Gentiles; from the very graft there
have been cut off heretics; but neither against them ought we to exalt ...
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Private Property and the Common Good
... In the Kingdom of God the "big, black book of graft" will be closed, and
men will no longer eat their protesting fellow-men. The ...
/.../the social principles of jesus/chapter viii private property and.htm

Different Degrees of Knowledge.
... For the graft uses as soil the tree in which it is engrafted. ... [3423] Romans 12:17.
[3424] ie, the graft is assimilated; so the Latin translator. ...
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Graft (1 Occurrence)
... The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. 2.
(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. ...GRAFT. ...
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Grafted (4 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Graft. Int. ... Romans 11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their
unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ...
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Unbelief (16 Occurrences)
... Romans 11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be
grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. (WEB ...
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Graffed (4 Occurrences)

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Ingraft (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions;
to graft; as, to ingraft a tree. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Engraft
... (vt) See Ingraft. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ENGRAFT. en-graft' (James
1:21 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) IMPLANT). ...
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Persist (10 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Romans 11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be
grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Powerful (93 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Romans 11:23 Moreover, if they turn from their unbelief, they too will
be grafted in. For God is powerful enough to graft them in again; (WEY). ...
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Bud (23 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from
the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon ...
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Stock (16 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part;
the trunk. 2. (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. ...
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Graft (1 Occurrence)

Romans 11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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Graft

Grafted (4 Occurrences)

Unbelief (16 Occurrences)

Graffed (4 Occurrences)

Ingraft (1 Occurrence)

Engraft

Persist (10 Occurrences)

Powerful (93 Occurrences)

Bud (23 Occurrences)

Stock (16 Occurrences)

Moreover (356 Occurrences)

Continue (144 Occurrences)

Philosophy (1 Occurrence)

Abstinence (2 Occurrences)

Graff (1 Occurrence)

Turn (963 Occurrences)

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