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Koine Greek wordlink #87356

SR GNT Acts 7:49 Ποῖον (Poion) ‘of the feet of me what house you_all will_be building for me’ Strongs=41690 Lemma=poios
Word role=determiner/case-marker case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=33 AD Event=Stephen_addresses_the_council TimeSeries=Stephen_addresses_the_council

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Only use of identical word form Ποῖον (E-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ποῖον’ (E-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘what’.

Acts 7:49 ‘of the feet of me what house you_all will_be building for me’ SR GNT Acts 7:49 word 15

OET-LV: 49 - heaven is a_throne to _me, and the the_earth is a_footstool of _the feet of _me. What house you _all _will _be _building for _me? The_master is _saying, or what place is of _the rest of _me? (ACT_7:49)

OET-RV: 49 ‘Heaven is my throne,
⇔ and the earth is where I place my feet.
⇔ How could you possibly build a suitable house for me? (ACT 7:49)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘poios’ have 10 different glosses: ‘by what’, ‘by what way’, ‘in what’, ‘on what’, ‘with what’, ‘what’, ‘what is’, ‘what things’, ‘which’, ‘which ones’.

Key: E=determiner/case-marker AMS=accusative,masculine,singular