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Koine Greek wordlink #97276

← προτρεψάμενοι ⌂ → Acts 18 ║ ═

SR GNT Acts 18:27 προτρεψάμενοι (protrepsamenoi) ‘to pass_through into Aⱪaia having encouraged him the brothers wrote’ Strongs=43890 Lemma=protrepō^*
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=aorist voice=middle case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=54 AD Event=Third_Missionary_Journey_Begins TimeSeries=Third_Missionary_Journey_Begins,Third_Missionary_Journey Refers to Word #97278

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Only use of identical word form προτρεψάμενοι (V-PAM·NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘προτρεψάμενοι’ (V-PAM·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘having encouraged him’.

Acts 18:27 ‘to pass_through into Aⱪaia having encouraged him the brothers wrote’ SR GNT Acts 18:27 word 42

OET-LV: 27 And about _him wishing to _pass _through into the Aⱪaia, the brothers having _encouraged him, wrote to _the apprentices/followers to _welcome him, who having _arrived, contributed much to _the ones having _believed through the grace. (ACT_18:27)

OET-RV: 27 Now Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, so the believers encouraged him and sent a letter ahead of him to tell the believers there to welcome him, so when he arrived there, he was able to contribute a lot to those who through God’s grace had also become believers. (ACT 18:27)

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

Key: V=verb