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Koine Greek wordlink #118413

SR GNT 1 Cor 13:1 χαλκός (ⱪalkos) ‘not I may_be having I have become brass resounding or a cymbal’ Strongs=54750 Lemma=χalkos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=59 AD Referred to from Word #118414

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Only use of identical word form χαλκός (N-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘χαλκός’ (N-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘brass’.

1 Cor 13:1 ‘not I may_be having I have become brass resounding or a cymbal’ SR GNT 1 Cor 13:1 word 15

OET-LV:  If with _the tongues of_ the _humans I _may _be _speaking and of_ the _messengers, but love not I _may _be _having, I _have _become brass resounding or a_cymbal screaming. (CO1_13:1)

OET-RV:  Even if I could speak in human languages as well as the languages of God’s messengers, but didn’t love others, then I’d just be like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (CO1 13:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘χalkos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘of bronze’, ‘brass’, ‘copper’, ‘money’.

Key: N=noun NMS=nominative,masculine,singular