UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἔχω

Sense 1: to have a greater benefit, to experience a superior advantage

Semantic entry: 65.47

Semantic domains: Value

Subdomains: Advantageous, Not Advantageous

Definition: to experience superior benefit or advantage, implying some type of comparison

Notes: In indicating ‘a superior advantage’ it may be necessary to be quite specific about the basis for the comparison. For example, in OET CO1 8:8 it may be necessary to translate as ‘if we do eat, we will be no better off than if we did not eat,’ and in OET ROM 3:9 one may translate ‘what then; are we decidedly better off than the others are?’

Show passage in OET: ROM 3:9

OET-RV ROM 3:9

9 What then? Do Yehudim (Jews) have any advantage? Definitely not, because we showed earlier that both Yehudim and other nationalities are all under sin’s shadow,

OET-LV ROM 3:9

9 Therefore what?
We _are _having _advantage?
Not certainly, because/for we _previously _charged, Youdaiōns both and Hellaʸns, all under sin to _be.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

προκατέχομαι

Form 1

Sense 1: to have a greater benefit, to experience a superior advantage