The corpus record

ἐγκεντ-ρίζω

egkentrizo

goad, spur on

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Where it lives

Romans 2 · 2.85/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐγκεντ-ρίζω · enkent-rizō — LSJ

goad, spur on

goad, spur on, LXX Wi. 16.11 (Pass.).

II graft

of plants, graft, Thphr. HP 2.2.5, Porph. Gaur. 10.1 (Pass.), etc.: metaph., Ep.Rom. 11.17, Plot. 2.9.7; of a Centaur, ὃν φύσις ἐνεκέντρισεν ἵππῳ APl. 16.116 (Euodus).

III concentrate

(κέντρον) concentrate, Dam. Pr. 74:—Pass., ib. 263.

In the wild

ἐγκεντρισθέντι · enkentristhenti Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1853)
ἐνεκεντρίσθης · enekentristhēs New Testament, Romans 11.17 (DIORISIS sentence 325)
ἐνεκεντρίσθης · enekentristhēs New Testament, Romans 11.24 (DIORISIS sentence 336)
ἐγκεντρισθέν · enkentristhen Plotinus, Enneads 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 1222)
ἐνεκεντρίζοντο · enekentrizonto Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 16

Where it came from

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