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Koine Greek wordlink #94034

SR GNT Acts 15:12 ἐσίγησεν (esigaʸsen) ‘kept_silent and all the’ Strongs=46010 Lemma=sigaō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=51 AD Event=Jerusalem_Council TimeSeries=Jerusalem_Council,Second_Missionary_Journey

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Only use of identical word form ἐσίγησεν (V-IAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐσίγησεν’ (V-IAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘kept_silent’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘sigaō’ have 8 different glosses: ‘having_been kept_silent’, ‘let_be keeping_silent’, ‘to keep_silent’, ‘to_be keeping_silent’, ‘he may keep_silent’, ‘him let_be keeping_silent’, ‘they kept_silent’, ‘kept_silent’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐσίγησεν (V-IAA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘kept_silent’

LUKE 9:36 ἐσίγησαν (esigaʸsan) V-IAA3··P ‘only and they kept_silent and to no_one they reported’ SR GNT Luke 9:36 word 15

OET-LV: 36 And at the time the voice to _become, only Yaʸsous was _found. And they kept _silent, and they _reported to _no _one in those the days nothing of _what things they _have _seen. (LUK_9:36)

OET-RV: 36 By the time that the voice had spoken, they could only see Yeshua in front of them. After this event, they kept what had happened to themselves and didn’t tell anyone else about what they’d seen. (LUK 9:36)

LUKE 20:26 ἐσίγησαν (esigaʸsan) V-IAA3··P ‘the answer of him they kept_silent’ SR GNT Luke 20:26 word 21

OET-LV: 26 And they _were_ not _able to _catch of _the one in_a_message before the people, and having _marvelled at the answer of _him, they _kept _silent. (LUK_20:26)

OET-RV: 26 So they weren’t able to catch him out by making a treasonable statement in front of the people—in fact they were stunned by his answer and didn’t ask anything else. (LUK 20:26)

ROM 16:25 σεσιγημένου (sesigaʸmenou) V-PEP·GNS ‘of the mystery in times the eternal having_been kept_silent’ SR GNT Rom 16:25 word 22

OET-LV: 25 And to _the one being _able you _all to _strengthen, according _to the good _message of _me, and the proclamation of_Yaʸsous chosen _one /messiah according _to the_revelation of_the_mystery in _times the_eternal having _been _kept _silent, (ROM_16:25)

OET-RV: 25 There’s one who, according to my preaching of the good message and the proclamation of Yeshua Messiah, is able to strengthen you all according to the revelation of the mystery that had been keep silent through the ages. (ROM 16:25)

Key: V=verb