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Koine Greek wordlink #97911

SR GNT Acts 19:22 ἐπέσχεν (epesⱪen) ‘and Erastos he held_on a time in Asia’ Strongs=19070 Lemma=epeχō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=58 AD Event=Mission_to_Ephesus/1_Cor_Written TimeSeries=Mission_to_Ephesus/1_Cor_Written,Third_Missionary_Journey

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

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

Acts 19:22 ‘and Erastos he held_on a time in Asia’ SR GNT Acts 19:22 word 18

OET-LV: 22 And having _sent _out into the Makedonia, two of _the ones serving unto _him, Timotheos and Erastos, he held _on a_time in the Asia. (ACT_19:22)

OET-RV: 22 He sent two of his workers, Timothy and Eratos, to Macedonia while he stayed on a bit longer in Asia Minor. (ACT 19:22)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epeχō’ have 5 different glosses: ‘be holding_on’, ‘was holding_on’, ‘held_on’, ‘holding_up’, ‘noticing’.

Key: V=verb