UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: womb

Semantic entry: 8.69

Semantic domains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products

Subdomains: Parts of the Body

Definition: the uterus

Notes: For the total expression as an idiom, see 10.45: ἄρσην. Rarely can one translate literally RV LUK 2:23 · LV LUK 2:23 · Read together LUK 2:23 as ‘every male that opens the womb,’ since this is likely to refer to an adult male who first has sexual intercourse with a woman. The reference in RV LUK 2:23 · LV LUK 2:23 · Read together LUK 2:23 is, of course, to the first male child which is born to a woman, and therefore an appropriate equivalent in many languages is ‘a woman’s first baby if it is a boy.’