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Koine Greek wordlink #101827

SR GNT Acts 24:3 κράτιστε (kratiste) ‘and everywhere we are welcoming it most_excellent Faʸlix with all’ Strongs=29030 Lemma=kratistos
Word role=adjective case=vocative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD Event=Paul_sent_to_Felix TimeSeries=Paul_sent_to_Felix

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Other uses (1) of identical word form κράτιστε (A-VMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κράτιστε’ (A-VMS) is always and only glossed as ‘most_excellent’.

Luke 1:3 ‘consecutively to you to write most_excellent Theofilos’ SR GNT Luke 1:3 word 10

OET-LV: 3 it _supposed to _also _me having _followed originally with _all things exactly, to _write to _you consecutively, most _excellent Theofilos, (LUK_1:3)

OET-RV: 3 So since we had followed all these events so carefully, it seemed like a good idea to write this account for you, honoured Theophilus, (LUK 1:3)

Greek words (2) other than κράτιστε (A-VMS) with a gloss related to ‘most_excellent’

ACTs 23:26 κρατίστῳ (kratistōi) A-DMS ‘Klaudios Lusias to the most_excellent governor Faʸlix to_be greeting’ SR GNT Acts 23:26 word 5

OET-LV: 26 Klaudios Lusias, to _be _greeting to _the most _excellent governor Faʸlix. (ACT_23:26)

OET-RV: 26 “Greetings to the most excellent Governor Felix from Claudius Lysias. (ACT 23:26)

ACTs 26:25 Κράτιστε (Kratiste) A-VMS ‘not I am raving_mad is saying most_excellent Faʸstos but of truth’ SR GNT Acts 26:25 word 7

OET-LV: 25 But the Paulos: Is _saying I _am_ not _raving _mad: most _excellent Faʸstos, but I _am _speaking _out messages of _truth and sobriety. (ACT_26:25)

OET-RV: 25 But Paul said, “I haven’t gone mad, most excellent Festus, but I’m speaking the truth in all seriousness. (ACT 26:25)

Key: A=adjective DMS=dative,masculine,singular VMS=vocative,masculine,singular