Word Summary
phyō: to bring forth, produce
Original Word: φύωTransliteration: phyō
Phonetic Spelling: (foo'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bring forth, produce
Meaning: to bring forth, produce
Strong's Concordance
spring up.
A primary verb; probably originally, to "puff" or blow, i.e. To swell up; but only used in the implied sense, to germinate or grow (sprout, produce), literally or figuratively -- spring (up).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5453: φύωφύω; 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,