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Koine Greek wordlink #88251

SR GNT Acts 8:32 κείραντος (keirantos) ‘a lamb before the one having shaved him silent thus’ Strongs=27510 Lemma=keirō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=aorist voice=active case=genitive gender=masculine number=singular
Year=34 AD Event=Conversion_of_Ethiopian_Eunuch TimeSeries=Conversion_of_Ethiopian_Eunuch

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Only use of identical word form κείραντος (V-PAA·GMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κείραντος’ (V-PAA·GMS) is always and only glossed as ‘having shaved’.

Acts 8:32 ‘a lamb before the one having shaved him silent thus’ SR GNT Acts 8:32 word 21

OET-LV: 32 And the passage of_ the _scripture which he _was _reading was this: he _was _led As a_sheep to the_slaughter, and silent as a_lamb before the one having _shaved him, thus he _is_ not _opening _up the mouth of _him. (ACT_8:32)

OET-RV: 32 Now the particular passage that he was reading was this:
⇔ ‘He was led away like a sheep being led to the slaughterhouse,
⇔ and stayed as silent as a lamb being shorn
⇔ so he never opened his mouth. (ACT 8:32)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘keirō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘having shaved’, ‘to shave’, ‘her let shave’.

Greek words (2) other than κείραντος (V-PAA·GMS) with a gloss related to ‘shaved’

ACTs 18:18 κειράμενος (keiramenos) V-PAM·NMS ‘Priskilla and Akulas having shaved in Kegⱪreai his’ SR GNT Acts 18:18 word 23

OET-LV: 18 And the Paulos having _remained many days still, having _bid _goodbye to _the brothers, was _sailing _away to the Suria/(ʼArām), and with him Priskilla and Akulas, having _shaved his head in Kegⱪreai, because/for he _was _having a_vow. (ACT_18:18)

OET-RV: 18 Paul stayed on for quite a few days after that, then he farewelled the believers and went to Cenchrea where he had his hair cut as was the custom for someone making a vow. Then taking Priscilla and Aquila with him, he sailed towards Syria. (ACT 18:18)

1 COR 11:5 ἐξυρημένῃ (exuraʸmenaʸ) V-PEP·DFS Lemma=xuraō ‘and the same with having_been shaved’ SR GNT 1 Cor 11:5 word 24

OET-LV: 5 But every woman praying or prophesying uncovered with _her head, is _disgracing the head of _her, because/for one it _is and the same which with _having _been _shaved. (CO1_11:5)

OET-RV: 5 but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head, because it’s just as if her head had been shaved. (CO1 11:5)

Key: V=verb