Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
the placing as a son, i.e. adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
adoption, a placing in the condition of a son, Rom. 8:15, 23; 9:4; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5*
Translated in KJV as
adoption (of children, of sons)
Etymology
from a presumed compound of G5207 (υἱός) and a derivative of G5087 (τίθημι);
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