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Koine Greek wordlink #103093

SR GNT Acts 26:9 πρᾶξαι (praxai) ‘it to_be fitting many contrary things to do’ Strongs=42380 Lemma=prassō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=62 AD Event=Paul_goes_before_Agrippa TimeSeries=Paul_goes_before_Agrippa

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Only use of identical word form πρᾶξαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πρᾶξαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to do’.

Acts 26:9 ‘it to_be fitting many contrary things to do’ SR GNT Acts 26:9 word 16

OET-LV: 9 Therefore indeed I supposed to _myself it _to _be _fitting to _do many contrary things to the name of_Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) of_ the _from _Nazaret. (ACT_26:9)

OET-RV: 9 “I too originally thought it necessary to do many things to oppose the cause of this Yeshua from Nazareth. (ACT 26:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prassō’ have 24 different glosses: ‘are doing’, ‘be collecting’, ‘be practicing’, ‘having done’, ‘having practiced’, ‘having_been done’, ‘is doing’, ‘to do’, ‘to_be doing’, ‘to_have done’, ‘I am doing’, ‘I have done’, ‘I collected’, ‘he did’, ‘they practiced’, ‘we did’, ‘you are doing’, ‘you may do’, ‘you may_be practicing’, ‘you_all will_be doing’, ‘you_all did’, ‘did’, ‘doing’, ‘practicing’.

Key: V=verb