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Koine Greek wordlink #95173

SR GNT Acts 16:19 εἵλκυσαν (heilkusan) ‘Paulos and Silas they dragged them into the marketplace’ Strongs=16700 Lemma=helkuō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=53 AD Event=Paul_and_Silas_imprisoned TimeSeries=Paul_and_Silas_imprisoned,Second_Missionary_Journey

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

The word form ‘εἵλκυσαν’ (V-IAA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they dragged them’.

Acts 16:19 ‘Paulos and Silas they dragged them into the marketplace’ SR GNT Acts 16:19 word 29

OET-LV: 19 But the masters of _her having _seen that the hope of _the business of _them, going _out, having _taken _hold _of the Paulos and the Silas, they _dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers, (ACT_16:19)

OET-RV: 19 But when her masters realised that their profitable business was about to come to an end, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them to the authorities at the marketplace. (ACT 16:19)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘helkuō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘may draw’, ‘to drag’, ‘I will_be drawing’, ‘they dragged them’, ‘dragged’, ‘drew’.

Greek words (1) other than εἵλκυσαν (V-IAA3··P) with a gloss related to ‘dragged’

YHN 21:11 εἵλκυσεν (heilkusen) V-IAA3··S ‘Simōn Petros and dragged the net to’ SR GNT Yhn 21:11 word 7

OET-LV: 11 Therefore Simōn Petros went _up, and dragged the net to the land full of_ large _fishes a_hundred fifty three, but being so _many, the net was_ not _torn. (JHN_21:11)

OET-RV: 11 So Simon Peter went and dragged the net up onto the beach. Amazingly it hadn’t torn even though it contained 153 large fish. (JHN 21:11)

Key: V=verb