Luk 1:24 | RWP | e4.org | Conceived ( συνελαβεν ). Luke uses this word eleven times and it occurs only five other times in the N.T. It is a very old and common Greek word. He alone in the N.T. has it for conceiving offspring ( , , ; ) though uses it of lust producing sin. Hobart ( Medical Language of Luke , p. 91) observes that Luke has almost as many words for pregnancy and barrenness as Hippocrates ( εν γαστρ εχειν , ; εγκυος , ; στειρα , ; ατεκνος , ). Hid ( περιεκρυβεν ). Only here in the N.T., but in late Koine writers. Usually considered second aorist active indicative from περικρυπτω , though it may be the imperfect indicative of a late form περικρυβω . If it is aorist it is the constative aorist. The preposition περ makes it mean completely (on all sides) hid.

‏ Luke 1:24

Conceived ( συνελαβεν ). Luke uses this word eleven times and it occurs only five other times in the N.T. It is a very old and common Greek word. He alone in the N.T. has it for conceiving offspring (1:24, 31, 36; 2:21) though Jas 1:15 uses it of lust producing sin. Hobart (Medical Language of Luke, p. 91) observes that Luke has almost as many words for pregnancy and barrenness as Hippocrates ( εν γαστρ εχειν, 21:23; εγκυος, 2:5; στειρα, 1:7; ατεκνος, 20:28).

Hid ( περιεκρυβεν ). Only here in the N.T., but in late Koine writers. Usually considered second aorist active indicative from περικρυπτω, though it may be the imperfect indicative of a late form περικρυβω. If it is aorist it is the constative aorist. The preposition περ makes it mean completely (on all sides) hid.