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Koine Greek wordlink #87201

SR GNT Acts 7:42 σφάγια (sfagia) ‘of the prophets not victims and sacrifices you_all offered’ Strongs=49680 Lemma=sfagion^*
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=neuter number=plural
Year=33 AD Event=Stephen_addresses_the_council TimeSeries=Stephen_addresses_the_council

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Only use of identical word form σφάγια (N-ANP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘σφάγια’ (N-ANP) is always and only glossed as ‘victims’.

Acts 7:42 ‘of the prophets not victims and sacrifices you_all offered’ SR GNT Acts 7:42 word 21

OET-LV: 42 But the god turned, and gave_ them _over to _be _serving unto _the army of_ the _heaven, as it _has _been _written in scroll of _the prophets: You _all_ not _offered victims and sacrifices to _me, because/forty years? in the wilderness, house of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl)? (ACT_7:42)

OET-RV: 42 But God turned and allowed them to serve the heavenly armies, just as the prophets wrote,
⇔ ‘It wasn’t me that you Israelis sacrificed to for those forty years in the wilderness. (ACT 7:42)

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

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural