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Koine Greek wordlink #91660

SR GNT Acts 12:20 Βλάστον (Blaston) ‘him and having persuaded Blastos who was over the’ Strongs=9860 Lemma=blastos^*
Word role=proper noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Person=Blastus Year=44 AD Event=Herod_dies TimeSeries=Herod_dies

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Only use of identical word form Βλάστον (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Βλάστον’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘Blastos’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Βλάστον’ (N-AMS) was always and only glossed as ‘Blastus’).

Acts 12:20 ‘him and having persuaded Blastos who was over the’ SR GNT Acts 12:20 word 26

OET-LV: 20 And he _was raging with_the_Turos/(Tsor) and Sidōn/(Tsīdōn)ians, and with _one _accord they _were _coming to him, and having _persuaded Blastos, who was over the bedchamber of _the king, they _were _requesting peace, because _of that the region of _them to _be _being _nourished by the royal. (ACT_12:20)

OET-RV: 20 Now King Herod was disputing with the people of Tyre and Tsidon, and so they got together and persuaded Blastos, a close personal servant of the king, to be their spokesman in asking for peace because they were dependent on food from the king’s provinces. (ACT 12:20)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘blastos’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular