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Koine Greek wordlink #24502

SR GNT Mark 4:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) ‘the birds and devoured it’ Strongs=27190 Lemma=katesthiō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Refers to Word #24498

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Other uses (3) of identical word form κατέφαγεν (V-IAA3..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κατέφαγεν’ (V-IAA3..S) has 2 different glosses: ‘it devoured’, ‘devoured’.

Mat 13:4 ‘the birds and devoured them’ SR GNT Mat 13:4 word 20

Luke 8:5 ‘birds of the sky devoured it’ SR GNT Luke 8:5 word 29

Rev 20:9 ‘the sky and it devoured them’ SR GNT Rev 20:9 word 33

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katesthiō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘are devouring’, ‘having devoured’, ‘is devouring’, ‘is devouring you_all’, ‘will_be consuming’, ‘I devoured’, ‘he may devour it’, ‘it devoured’, ‘you_all are devouring’, ‘devour’, ‘devoured’, ‘devouring’.

Greek words (2) other than κατέφαγεν (V-IAA3..S) with a gloss related to ‘devoured’

LUKE 15:30 καταφαγών (katafagōn) V-PAA.NMS ‘son of you this having devoured of you the living’ SR GNT Luke 15:30 word 11

REV 10:10 κατέφαγον (katefagon) V-IAA1..S ‘of the messenger and I devoured it and it was’ SR GNT Rev 10:10 word 13

Key: V=verb IAA1..S=indicative,aorist,active,1st person singular IAA3..S=indicative,aorist,active,3rd person singular PAA.NMS=participle,aorist,active,nominative,masculine,singular