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Koine Greek wordlink #118301

SR GNT 1 Cor 12:25 μεριμνῶσι (merimnōsi) ‘same for one_another may_be caring_for the members’ Strongs=33090 Lemma=merimnaō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form μεριμνῶσι (V-SPA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μεριμνῶσι’ (V-SPA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘may_be caring_for’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘merimnaō’ have 9 different glosses: ‘be worrying’, ‘is caring_for’, ‘may_be caring_for’, ‘will_be caring_for’, ‘will_be worrying’, ‘you are worrying’, ‘you_all are worrying’, ‘you_all may worry’, ‘worrying’.

Greek words (5) other than μεριμνῶσι (V-SPA3··P) with a gloss related to ‘caring_for’

1 COR 7:32 μεριμνᾷ (merimna) V-IPA3··S ‘to_be the unmarried is caring_for the things of the master’ SR GNT 1 Cor 7:32 word 8

OET-LV: 32 But I _am _wanting you _all unanxious to _be. The unmarried is _caring _for the things of _the master, how he _may _bring _pleasure to _the master, (CO1_7:32)

OET-RV: 32 But I’d like you to be free from concern. Single men are concerned about things of the master—pleasing the master— (CO1 7:32)

1 COR 7:33 μεριμνᾷ (merimna) V-IPA3··S ‘the one but having married is caring_for the things of the world’ SR GNT 1 Cor 7:33 word 4

OET-LV: 33 but the one having _married is _caring _for the things of _the world, how he _may _bring _pleasure to _the wife, and has _been _divided. Both the woman the unmarried and the virgin (CO1_7:33)

OET-RV: 33 but married men are concerned about worldly affairs—wanting to please their wives—so they’re divided. And unmarried or single women (CO1 7:33)

1 COR 7:34 μεριμνᾷ (merimna) V-IPA3··S ‘unmarried is caring_for the things of the master’ SR GNT 1 Cor 7:34 word 3

OET-LV: 34 the unmarried is _caring _for the things of _the master, in _order _that she _may _be holy, both in _the body and the spirit, but the woman having _married is _caring _for the things of _the world, how she _may _bring _pleasure to _the husband. (CO1_7:34)

OET-RV: 34 are concerning about things of the master—so that both their bodies and their spirits can be separate from the world—but married women are concerned about worldly affairs—wanting to please their husbands. (CO1 7:34)

1 COR 7:34 μεριμνᾷ (merimna) V-IPA3··S ‘the woman but having married is caring_for the things of the world’ SR GNT 1 Cor 7:34 word 19

PHP 2:20 μεριμνήσει (merimnaʸsei) V-IFA3··S ‘the things concerning you_all will_be caring_for’ SR GNT Php 2:20 word 10

OET-LV: 20 For/Because no _one I _am _having kindred-spirit, who genuinely the things concerning you _all will _be _caring _for. (PHP_2:20)

OET-RV: 20 because I have no one else so similar to me in spirit who will be genuinely caring for how you’re all doing. (PHP 2:20)

Key: V=verb