to ingraft
egkentrizo describes being joined into an olive tree, including the prospect of being joined back into one’s own tree.
The attested use describes insertion into an olive-tree setting: a wild olive tree is brought among existing branches, while natural branches may be brought back into their own tree.
Senses in use
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Joining branches into an olive tree · dominant
In Romans 11:17, the second-person aorist passive form occurs where a wild olive tree is brought among branches and shares the olive tree’s root richness; the APB renders the clause “were grafted in among them.” Romans 11:19 expresses the speaker’s hoped-for insertion after branches were broken off, while Romans 11:23 and Romans 11:24 describe branches being brought in again or back into their own olive tree; the APB renders these clauses with “grafted in,” “grafted them in again,” and “grafted back.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB consistently presents the olive-tree action with “grafted” language, adding “again” and “back” where the clause concerns return. These renderings confirm the scene rather than establish separate lexical senses.