Word Summary
ankalē: the bent arm
Original Word: ἀγκάληTransliteration: ankalē
Phonetic Spelling: (ang-kal'-ay)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: the bent arm
Meaning: the bent arm
Strong's Concordance
arm.
From agkos (a bend, "ache"); an arm (as curved) -- arm.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 43: ἀγκάληἀγκάλη,
(ης,
ἡ (
ἀγκη,
ἀγκάς (from the root
ak to bend, curve, cf. Latin
uncus,
angulus, English angle, etc.; cf.
Curtius, § 1;
Vanicek, p. 2f)),
the curve or
inner angle of the arm:
δέξασθαι εἰς τάς ἀγκάλας,
Luke 2:28. The Greeks also said
ἀγκάς λαβεῖν ἐν ἀγκάλαις περιφέρειν, etc., see
ἐναγκαλίζομαι. ((From
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down.))