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Koine Greek wordlink #88141

SR GNT Acts 8:27 Αἰθιόπων (Aithiopōn) ‘official of Kandakaʸ queen of the Aithiops/(Kūshiy)s who was over’ Strongs=1280 Lemma=aithiops
Word role=proper noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=plural
Year=34 AD Event=Conversion_of_Ethiopian_Eunuch TimeSeries=Conversion_of_Ethiopian_Eunuch

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Only use of identical word form Αἰθιόπων (N-GMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Αἰθιόπων’ (N-GMP) is always and only glossed as ‘of the Aithiops/(Kūshiy)s’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Αἰθιόπων’ (N-GMP) was always and only glossed as ‘of the Ethiopians’).

Acts 8:27 ‘official of Kandakaʸ queen of the Aithiops/(Kūshiy)s who was over’ SR GNT Acts 8:27 word 14

OET-LV: 27 And having _risen _up, he _was _gone, and see, a_man, an_Aithiops/(Kūshiy) eunuch, official of _Kandakaʸ queen of_the_Aithiopss, who was over all the treasure of _her, who had _come going _to _prostrate in Hierousalaʸm, (ACT_8:27)

OET-RV: 27 So he headed off, and on the road he came across an important official of the Ethiopian queen who was in charge of her treasury. This man had been in Yerushalem to worship God (ACT 8:27)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘aithiops’ have 2 different glosses: ‘an Aithiops/(Kūshiy)’, ‘of the Aithiops/(Kūshiy)s’.

Key: N=noun GMP=genitive,masculine,plural