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Koine Greek wordlink #100001

SR GNT Acts 21:29 προεωρακότες (proeōrakotes) ‘they were for having previously_seen Trofimos the from_Efesos’ Strongs=43080 Lemma=prooraō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=perfect voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_arrested_in_the_Temple TimeSeries=Paul_arrested_in_the_Temple Refers to Word #99930

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

The word form ‘προεωρακότες’ (V-PEA·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘having previously_seen’.

Acts 21:29 ‘they were for having previously_seen Trofimos the from_Efesos’ SR GNT Acts 21:29 word 4

OET-LV: 29 For/Because they _were having _previously _seen Trofimos the from _Efesos in the city with him, whom they _were _thinking that the Paulos brought _in into the temple. (ACT_21:29)

OET-RV: 29 (They said this because they had previously seen Trofimus from Ephesus in the city with Paul and had assumed that he had brought him into the temple.) (ACT 21:29)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prooraō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘having foreseen’, ‘having previously_seen’, ‘I was foreseeing’.

Key: V=verb