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Koine Greek wordlink #98829

SR GNT Acts 20:19 ἐπιβουλαῖς (epiboulais) ‘to me in the plots of the Youdaiōns’ Strongs=19170 Lemma=epiboulē
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_speaks_to_Ephesian_Elders TimeSeries=Paul_speaks_to_Ephesian_Elders

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Only use of identical word form ἐπιβουλαῖς (N-DFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπιβουλαῖς’ (N-DFP) is always and only glossed as ‘plots’.

Acts 20:19 ‘to me in the plots of the Youdaiōns’ SR GNT Acts 20:19 word 20

OET-LV: 19 serving for _the master with all humility, and tears, and trials, in the plots of _the Youdaiōns which having _happened, to _me, (ACT_20:19)

OET-RV: 19 I humbly served the master even through tears and trials when the Jews plotted to destroy me. (ACT 20:19)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epiboulē’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a plot’, ‘of a plot’, ‘plot’, ‘plots’.

Key: N=noun DFP=dative,feminine,plural