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Koine Greek wordlink #91966

SR GNT Acts 13:8 διαστρέψαι (diastrepsai) ‘name of him seeking to pervert the proconsul from’ Strongs=12940 Lemma=diastrefō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=45 AD Event=Barnabas_and_Saul_go_to_Cyprus TimeSeries=Barnabas_and_Saul_go_to_Cyprus,First_Missionary_Journey Refers to Word #91956 Person=Elymas

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Only use of identical word form διαστρέψαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διαστρέψαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to pervert’.

Acts 13:8 ‘name of him seeking to pervert the proconsul from’ SR GNT Acts 13:8 word 14

OET-LV: 8 But Elumas the magician (for thus is _being _translated the name of _him was _resisting against _them) seeking to _pervert the proconsul from the faith. (ACT_13:8)

OET-RV: 8 but the sorcerer opposed them and tried to prevent Sergius from believing. (ACT 13:8)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘diastrefō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘having_been perverted’, ‘having_been perverted things’, ‘to pervert’, ‘perverting’.

Key: V=verb