STRONGS G1626:
ἔκτρωμα,
-τος,
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, Rutherford edition],
ἄμβλωμα and
ἐξάμβλωμα are preferable; [
Huxtable in "Expositor" for Apr. 1882, p. 277ff; Bp.
Lightfoot Ignatius ad
Rom. 9, p. 230f].)
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