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Koine Greek wordlink #94188

SR GNT Acts 15:20 ἀλισγημάτων (alisgaʸmatōn) ‘to them to_be keeping_away from the pollutions of idols and sexual_immorality’ Strongs=2340 Lemma=alisgēma^*
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=neuter number=plural
Year=51 AD Event=Jerusalem_Council TimeSeries=Jerusalem_Council,Second_Missionary_Journey

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Only use of identical word form ἀλισγημάτων (N-GNP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀλισγημάτων’ (N-GNP) is always and only glossed as ‘pollutions’.

Acts 15:20 ‘to them to_be keeping_away from the pollutions of idols and sexual_immorality’ SR GNT Acts 15:20 word 8

OET-LV: 20 but to _write to _them which to _be _keeping _away from _the pollutions of_ the _idols, and the sexual _immorality, and the strangled animal, and the blood. (ACT_15:20)

OET-RV: 20 but to write to them to keep away from anything polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, and from strangled animals and eating or drinking blood. (ACT 15:20)

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

Key: N=noun GNP=genitive,neuter,plural