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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

Messiah AcPl Ha 8, 27f. ⓑ otherwise in our lit. only fig., ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀ. θάνατον sin gives birth to (i.e. brings forth) death Js 1:15. But the term is not confined to the human female faculty (cp. Herm. Wr. 1, 9); of God (s. γεννάω) ἀπεκύησεν ἡμᾶς λόγῳ ἀληθείας gave birth to us (brought us into being) through the word of truth Js 1:18.—C-MEdsman, Schöpferwille u. Geburt Jk 1:18: ZNW 38, ’39, 11–44.—DELG s.v. κυέω I. M-M. TW. Spicq.