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Koine Greek wordlink #118395

SR GNT 1 Cor 12:31 ὑπερβολήν (huperbolaʸn) ‘and still by an excellent way to you_all I am showing’ Strongs=52360 Lemma=huperbolē
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Other uses (5) of identical word form ὑπερβολήν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὑπερβολήν’ (N-AFS) has 2 different glosses: ‘an excellent’, ‘excess’.

Rom 7:13 ‘in_order_that may become as excess sinful sin by’ SR GNT Rom 7:13 word 25

OET-LV: 13 Therefore the good law to _me became death? Never it _might _become. But the sin, in _order _that it _may _be _seen sin by the good law in _me producing death, in _order _that may _become as excess sinful the sin by the command. (ROM_7:13)

OET-RV: 13 so did what is good turn into death? Not on your life! Rather it was the good Law that allowed me to see sin as sin and a producer of death (ROM 7:13)

2 Cor 1:8 ‘Asia that against excess beyond our power we were weighed_down’ SR GNT 2 Cor 1:8 word 20

OET-LV: 8 For/Because not we _are _wanting you _all to _be _not _knowing, brothers, about the tribulation of _us which having _become in the Asia, that against excess beyond ^our_power we _were _weighed _down, so _as to _be _despairing us even which to _be _living. (CO2_1:8)

OET-RV: 8 Brothers and sisters, we don’t want you to miss out on knowing about our difficulties in the province of Asia Minor. We were weighed down with a situation totally beyond our power, so much so that we thought we wouldn’t live through it. (CO2 1:8)

2 Cor 4:17 ‘light of tribulation as excess to excess an eternal’ SR GNT 2 Cor 4:17 word 9

OET-LV: 17 For/Because the momentary light of_ the _tribulation as excess to excess an_eternal burden of _glory, is _producing for _us, (CO2_4:17)

OET-RV: 17 because our small, temporary troubles will produce an excess of great honour for us. (CO2 4:17)

2 Cor 4:17 ‘as excess to excess an eternal burden of glory’ SR GNT 2 Cor 4:17 word 11

OET-LV: 17 For/Because the momentary light of_ the _tribulation as excess to excess an_eternal burden of _glory, is _producing for _us, (CO2_4:17)

OET-RV: 17 because our small, temporary troubles will produce an excess of great honour for us. (CO2 4:17)

Gal 1:13 ‘Judaism that as excess I was persecuting the assembly’ SR GNT Gal 1:13 word 12

OET-LV: 13 For/Because you _all _heard the my conduct once in the Judaism, that as excess I _was _persecuting the assembly of_ the _god, and was _persecuting it. (GAL_1:13)

OET-RV: 13 Brothers and sisters, you’ve heard about my previous behaviour, when as a strict Jew, I was extreme in persecuting the assembly of God’s people, and was trying to destroy them. (GAL 1:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘huperbolē’ have 3 different glosses: ‘an excellent’, ‘excellent’, ‘excess’.

Greek words (1) other than ὑπερβολήν (N-AFS) with a gloss related to ‘excellent’

2 COR 4:7 ὑπερβολή (huperbolaʸ) N-NFS ‘vessels in_order_that the excellent of the power may_be’ SR GNT 2 Cor 4:7 word 11

OET-LV: 7 But we _are _having the treasure this in earthen vessels, in _order _that the excellent of _the power may _be of_ the _god, and not from us, (CO2_4:7)

OET-RV: 7 So we have this treasure stored in containers made from the dirt, so that the excellence of the power will be from God and not from us ourselves. (CO2 4:7)

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular