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Koine Greek wordlink #100143

SR GNT Acts 21:35 συνέβη (sunebaʸ) ‘to the stairs it happened to_be_being borne him by’ Strongs=48190 Lemma=sumbainō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_arrested_in_the_Temple TimeSeries=Paul_arrested_in_the_Temple

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

The word form ‘συνέβη’ (V-IAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘it happened’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘sumbainō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘has happened’, ‘having happened’, ‘having_been happened’, ‘to_be happening’, ‘was happening’, ‘it happened’, ‘happening’.

Greek words (5) other than συνέβη (V-IAA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘happened’

LUKE 24:14 συμβεβηκότων (sumbebaʸkotōn) V-PEA·GNP ‘one_another about all having happened these things’ SR GNT Luke 24:14 word 13

OET-LV: 14 And they were _conversing with one _another about all these things which having _happened. (LUK_24:14)

OET-RV: 14 and they were discussing with each other about all the recent events. (LUK 24:14)

ACTs 3:10 συμβεβηκότι (sumbebaʸkoti) V-PEA·DNS ‘amazement at the thing having_been happened to him’ SR GNT Acts 3:10 word 34

OET-LV: 10 And they _were _recognizing him that he was the one sitting at the Beautiful gate of _the temple for the alms, and they _were _filled with _amazement and amazement at the thing having _been _happened to _him. (ACT_3:10)

OET-RV: 10 and recognising that he was the man who usually sat outside begging at the ‘Beautiful Door’ of the temple, they were astonished and astounded at what had happened to him. (ACT 3:10)

ACTs 20:19 συμβάντων (sumbantōn) V-PAA·GMP ‘tears and trials having happened to me in the’ SR GNT Acts 20:19 word 15

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)

1 COR 16:6 τυχόν (tuⱪon) V-PAA·ANS Lemma=tugχanō ‘with you_all and having happened I will_be continuing_with or I will_be wintering’ SR GNT 1 Cor 16:6 word 4

OET-LV: 6 With and you _all having _happened I _will _be _continuing _with, or I _will _be _wintering, in _order _that you _all me may _send _forward, where if I _may _be _going. (CO1_16:6)

OET-RV: 6 but perhaps I’ll spend some time with you—maybe even the whole winter. That way, you all could help me on my way wherever I decide to go next, (CO1 16:6)

2 PET 2:22 συμβέβηκεν (sumbebaʸken) V-IEA3··S ‘has happened to them the message of the’ SR GNT 2 Pet 2:22 word 1

OET-LV: 22 the message of _the true proverb has _happened to _them: A_dog having _returned to its own vomit, and: A_sow having _washed, to wallowing in_the_mud. (PE2_2:22)

OET-RV: 22 The proverb is correct in what it says and has happened to them: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow that’s been washed wallows in the mud again.” (PE2 2:22)

Key: V=verb