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Koine Greek wordlink #104368

SR GNT Acts 27:42 ἐκκολυμβήσας (ekkolumbaʸsas) ‘they may kill_off lest anyone having swum_away may escape’ Strongs=15790 Lemma=ekkolumbaō^*
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=aorist voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=62 AD Event=Paul_is_shipwrecked_by_a_storm TimeSeries=Paul_is_shipwrecked_by_a_storm,Paul's_Journey_to_Rome

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Only use of identical word form ἐκκολυμβήσας (V-PAA·NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐκκολυμβήσας’ (V-PAA·NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘having swum_away’.

Acts 27:42 ‘they may kill_off lest anyone having swum_away may escape’ SR GNT Acts 27:42 word 12

OET-LV: 42 And of _the soldiers, the_counsel became that they _may _kill _off the prisoners, lest anyone having _swum _away may _escape. (ACT_27:42)

OET-RV: 42 At this point the soldiers decided that they should kill the prisoners in case any of them decided to swim away and escape, (ACT 27:42)

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

Key: V=verb