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Koine Greek wordlink #86980

SR GNT Acts 7:34 ἐξελέσθαι (exelesthai) ‘I heard and I came_down to rescue them and now’ Strongs=18070 Lemma=exaireō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=middle
Year=33 AD Event=Stephen_addresses_the_council TimeSeries=Stephen_addresses_the_council

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Only use of identical word form ἐξελέσθαι (V-NAM····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐξελέσθαι’ (V-NAM····) is always and only glossed as ‘to rescue’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘exaireō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘to rescue’, ‘I rescued him’, ‘he may rescue’, ‘he rescued’, ‘pluck_out’, ‘rescued’, ‘rescuing’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐξελέσθαι (V-NAM····) with a gloss related to ‘rescue’

MAT 6:13 ῥῦσαι (ɽusai) V-MAM2··S Lemma=rhuomai ‘into temptation but rescue us from evil’ SR GNT Mat 6:13 word 9

OET-LV: 13 And you _may_ not _carry _in us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil. (MAT_6:13)

OET-RV: 13 Don’t bring us to the point of being tempted,
⇔ but keep us away from doing evil things.’ (MAT 6:13)

MAT 27:43 ῥυσάσθω (ɽusasthō) V-MAM3··S Lemma=rhuomai ‘he has trusted in god him let rescue now if he is wanting’ SR GNT Mat 27:43 word 8

OET-LV: 43 He _has _trusted in the god, let _him _rescue now if he _is _wanting him. For/Because he _said, that I _am the_son of_god. (MAT_27:43)

OET-RV: 43 He put his trust in God, so let God rescue him now if he wants him, because he did claim to be God’s son.” (MAT 27:43)

GAL 1:4 ἐξέληται (exelaʸtai) V-SAM3··S ‘sins of us so_that he may rescue us out_of the’ SR GNT Gal 1:4 word 11

OET-LV: 4 the one having _given himself concerning the sins of _us, so _that he _may _rescue us out _of the age which having _presented evil, according _to the will of _the god and father of _us, (GAL_1:4)

OET-RV: 4 the one who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present, evil age, according to God our father’s desire— (GAL 1:4)

Key: V=verb