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Koine Greek wordlink #83366

SR GNT Acts 3:2 ἐβαστάζετο (ebastazeto) ‘of the mother of him being was_being borne whom they were putting in_every’ Strongs=9410 Lemma=bastazō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=passive person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD Event=Lame_man_healed TimeSeries=Lame_man_healed

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Only use of identical word form ἐβαστάζετο (V-IIP3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐβαστάζετο’ (V-IIP3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘was_being borne’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘bastazō’ have 16 different glosses: ‘am bearing’, ‘are bearing’, ‘be bearing’, ‘having borne’, ‘is bearing’, ‘to bear’, ‘to_be bearing’, ‘to_be bearing them’, ‘to_be_being borne’, ‘was bearing’, ‘was_being borne’, ‘will_be bearing’, ‘you bore’, ‘bearing’, ‘bearing it’, ‘bore’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐβαστάζετο (V-IIP3··S) with a gloss related to ‘borne’

MAT 20:12 βαστάσασι (bastasasi) V-PAA·DMP ‘them you made to the ones having borne the burden of the’ SR GNT Mat 20:12 word 17

OET-LV: 12 saying: These the last ones worked one hour, and you _made them equal to _us, to _the ones having _borne the burden of _the day and the scorching _heat. (MAT_20:12)

OET-RV: 12 and complained, ‘These last ones only worked an hour, and yet you paid them the same as us who worked the entire day right through the scorching heat!’ (MAT 20:12)

LUKE 11:27 βαστάσασα (bastasasa) V-PAA·NFS ‘blessed is the womb having borne you and the breasts’ SR GNT Luke 11:27 word 24

OET-LV: 27 And it _became at the time him to _be _saying these things, a_certain woman from the crowd having _lifted _up a_voice, said to _him: Blessed is the womb which having _borne you, and the_breasts which you _nursed. (LUK_11:27)

OET-RV: 27 While Yeshua was teaching these things, a woman in the crowd shouted out, “Blessed is the mother who bore you and the one who raised you.” (LUK 11:27)

ACTs 21:35 βαστάζεσθαι (bastazesthai) V-NPP···· ‘the stairs it happened to_be_being borne him by the’ SR GNT Acts 21:35 word 11

OET-LV: 35 And when he _became to the stairs, it _happened him to _be _being _borne by the soldiers, because _of the force of _the crowd. (ACT_21:35)

OET-RV: 35 When they got to the stairs, the soldiers had to lift him up above their heads because of the frenzy of the crowd, (ACT 21:35)

Key: V=verb