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Koine Greek wordlink #101141

SR GNT Acts 23:9 διεμάχοντο (diemaⱪonto) ‘side of the Farisaios_party they were contending saying nothing evil’ Strongs=12640 Lemma=diamaχomai^*
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=middle person=3rd number=plural
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_goes_before_the_Council TimeSeries=Paul_goes_before_the_Council

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Only use of identical word form διεμάχοντο (V-IIM3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διεμάχοντο’ (V-IIM3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they were contending’.

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

Greek words (1) other than διεμάχοντο (V-IIM3··P) with a gloss related to ‘contending’

YUD 1:3 ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι (epagōnizesthai) V-NPM···· Lemma=epagōnizomai ‘to write to you_all exhorting you to_be contending for the once having_been given_over’ SR GNT Yud 1:3 word 22

OET-LV: 3 Beloved, making all earnestness to _be _writing to _you _all concerning the common salvation of _us, I _had necessity to _write to _you _all, exhorting you to _be _contending for _the faith having _been _given _over once to _the holy ones. (JDE_1:3)

OET-RV: 3 Friends, I was so enthusiastic to write to you concerning our salvation that we have in common, but I needed to write to you all, encouraging you to stand strong for the teaching that was entrusted to the believers at a certain point in time. (JDE 1:3)

Key: V=verb