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Koine Greek wordlink #102558

SR GNT Acts 25:11 Ἐπικαλοῦμαι (Epikaloumai) ‘to them to grant to Kaisar I am appealing’ Strongs=19410 Lemma=epikaleō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=middle person=1st number=singular
Year=62 AD Event=Paul_appeals_to_Caesar TimeSeries=Paul_appeals_to_Caesar

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Only use of identical word form Ἐπικαλοῦμαι (V-IPM1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἐπικαλοῦμαι’ (V-IPM1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I am appealing’.

Acts 25:11 ‘to them to grant to Kaisar I am appealing’ SR GNT Acts 25:11 word 30

OET-LV: 11 Therefore if on _one _hand I _am _doing _wrong and I _have _done anything worthy of _death, I _am_ not _refusing which to _die _off, on _the _other _hand if nothing is true of _which these are _accusing against _me, no _one is _able to _grant me to _them. I _am _Appealing to _Kaisar. (ACT_25:11)

OET-RV: 11 If I had done anything wrong, anything worthy of the death sentence, then I’m ready to accept death. On the other hand, if none of their accusations are true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.” (ACT 25:11)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epikaleō’ have 19 different glosses: ‘am calling’, ‘being called’, ‘has_been called’, ‘having appealed’, ‘having_been called’, ‘is_being called’, ‘may call’, ‘to appeal’, ‘to_be_being called’, ‘was called’, ‘I am appealing’, ‘he had appealed’, ‘they may call’, ‘they called’, ‘who calling’, ‘you have appealed’, ‘you_all are calling_on’, ‘calling’, ‘calling_on’.

Key: V=verb