STRONGS G5453:
φύω; 2 aorist passive (
ἐφυην) participle
φυέν (for which the Attic writings more common use the 2 aorist active
ἐφυν with the participle
φύς,
φυν, in a passive or intransitive sense; cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii, p. 321;
Krüger, § 40 under the word; Kühner, § 343, under the word; (
Veitch, under the word);
Winers Grammar, § 15, under the word; (
Buttmann, 68 (60))); (cf. Latin
fui, fore, etc.;
Curtius, § 417); from
Homer down;
1. to beget, bring forth, produce; passive,
to be born, to spring up, to grow:
Luke 8:6,
8;
2. intransitive,
to shoot forth, spring up:
Hebrews 12:15 (
Winer's Grammar, 252 (237). Compare:
ἐκφύω,
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