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Koine Greek wordlink #83316

SR GNT Acts 2:47 προσετίθει (prosetithei) ‘the and master was adding the ones being saved in_every’ Strongs=43690 Lemma=prostithēmi
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD Event=The_church_grows TimeSeries=The_church_grows

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Only use of identical word form προσετίθει (V-IIA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘προσετίθει’ (V-IIA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘was adding’.

Acts 2:47 ‘the and master was adding the ones being saved in_every’ SR GNT Acts 2:47 word 15

OET-LV: 47 praising the god and having favour with all the people. And the master was _adding the ones being _saved with the same. in _every day. (ACT_2:47)

OET-RV: 47 praising God and being popular with the people, and every day Yahweh was adding more that were being saved. (ACT 2:47)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prostithēmi’ have 13 different glosses: ‘having proceeded’, ‘to add’, ‘to_be added’, ‘was added’, ‘was adding’, ‘were added’, ‘were_being added’, ‘will_be_being added’, ‘he proceeded’, ‘it was added’, ‘it will_be_being added’, ‘add’, ‘added’.

Key: V=verb