Ektroma means “born out of due time” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1626 — gerah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1626 ἔκτρωμα (ektroma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ektroma (ek'-tro-mah) n. 1. a miscarriage (abortion) 2. (by analogy) untimely, premature birth It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include out, mother, womb, untimely, and birth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
ektroma (ek'-tro-mah) n. 1. a miscarriage (abortion) 2. (by analogy) untimely, premature birth [from a comparative of G1537 and titrosko "to wound"] KJV: born out of due time Root(s): G1537
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1626. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
untimely birth
Usage: ἔκ-τρωμα, -τος, τό (ἐκτιτρώσκω, to miscarry), [in LXX: Job.3:16, Ecc.6:3 (; also in Aq., Psa.58:9, Num.12:12 (נָפַל) * ;] an abortion, an untimely birth (see Field, Notes, 179): 1Co.15:8.† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1626 (ἔκτρωμα) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, And also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1626.
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, And also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1626, grouped by book.
Ektroma (Strong's G1626) is a Greek word most simply glossed "born out of due time". ektroma (ek'-tro-mah) n. 1. a miscarriage (abortion) 2. (by analogy) untimely, premature birth
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G1626 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1626 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as out, mother, womb, untimely, birth, and years. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1626, with linked reader references where each row is available.