STRONGS NUMBER G1723

Original Word: ἐναγκαλίζομαι
Transliteration: enankalizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (en-ang-kal-id'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to take into one's arms, to embrace
Meaning: to take into one's arms, to embraceembrace, hug

From en and a derivative of agkale; to take in one's arms, i.e. Embrace -- take up in arms.

see GREEK en

see GREEK agkale

STRONGS NT 1723: ἐναγκαλίζομαι

ἐναγκαλίζομαι: 1 aorist participle ἐναγκαλισάμενος; (middle equivalent to εἰς τάς ἀγκάλας δέχομαι, Luke 2:28); to take into the arms, embrace: τινα, Mark 9:36; Mark 10:16. (Proverbs 6:10; Proverbs 24:48 (); Meleager, in Anth. 7, 476, 10; Plutarch; Alciphron, epistles 2, 4; others.)