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Koine Greek wordlink #102976

SR GNT Acts 26:3 ἐθῶν (ethōn) ‘the among the Youdaiōns of customs both and questions’ Strongs=14850 Lemma=ethos
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=neuter number=plural
Year=62 AD Event=Paul_goes_before_Agrippa TimeSeries=Paul_goes_before_Agrippa

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Only use of identical word form ἐθῶν (N-GNP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐθῶν’ (N-GNP) is always and only glossed as ‘of customs’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ethos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘the custom’, ‘of customs’, ‘custom’, ‘customs’.

Greek words (4) other than ἐθῶν (N-GNP) with a gloss related to ‘customs’

ACTs 6:14 ἔθη (ethaʸ) N-ANP ‘and will_be changing the customs that gave_over to us’ SR GNT Acts 6:14 word 18

OET-LV: 14 for/because we _have _heard him saying that this Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) the from _Nazaret will _be _tearing _down the this place, and will _be _changing the customs that Mōsaʸs gave _over to _us. (ACT_6:14)

OET-RV: 14 because we heard him saying that that Yeshua from Nazareth will be tearing down this building and will be changing the traditions that Mosheh gave to us.” (ACT 6:14)

ACTs 16:21 ἔθη (ethaʸ) N-ANP ‘and they are proclaiming customs that not it is permitting’ SR GNT Acts 16:21 word 5

OET-LV: 21 and they _are _proclaiming customs that it _is_ not _permitting for _us to _be _accepting nor to _be _practicing, being Ɽōmaios. (ACT_16:21)

OET-RV: 21 and teaching behaviour that we as Romans can neither accept nor practice.” (ACT 16:21)

ACTs 21:21 ἔθεσιν (ethesin) N-DNP ‘children nor in the customs to_be walking’ SR GNT Acts 21:21 word 29

OET-LV: 21 And they _were _instructed concerning you, that you _are _teaching apostasy from Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh) all Youdaiōns the ones among the pagans, saying them not to _be _circumcising their children, nor to _be _walking in _the customs. (ACT_21:21)

OET-RV: 21 But they’ve heard reports that you’ve been teaching the Jews that live outside our country that they don’t have to obey what Mosheh wrote—telling them that they don’t have to have their children circumcised and that they don’t have to follow our Jewish customs. (ACT 21:21)

ACTs 28:17 ἔθεσι (ethesi) N-DNP ‘people or the customs ancestral a prisoner from’ SR GNT Acts 28:17 word 34

OET-LV: 17 And it _became after three days, him to _call _together the ones being leaders of _the Youdaiōns. And them having _come _together, he _was _saying to them: Men brothers I, having _done nothing contrary to _the people or the the ancestral customs, a_prisoner from Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) was _given _over into the hands of _the Ɽōmaios, (ACT_28:17)

OET-RV: 17 After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews in Rome, and when they’d all gathered he spoke to them, “Men, brothers, I have done nothing against my people or against our ancestral customs. I was taken prisoner in Yerushalem and handed over to the Romans (ACT 28:17)

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural DNP=dative,neuter,plural GNP=genitive,neuter,plural