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Koine Greek wordlink #118898

SR GNT 1 Cor 14:16 ἰδιώτου (idiōtou) ‘the place of the inquirer how he will_be saying the’ Strongs=23990 Lemma=idiōtēs
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἰδιώτου (N-GMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἰδιώτου’ (N-GMS) is always and only glossed as ‘inquirer’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘idiōtēs’ have 3 different glosses: ‘inquirer’, ‘inquirers’, ‘ordinary’.

Greek words (1) other than ἰδιώτου (N-GMS) with a gloss related to ‘inquirer’

1 COR 14:24 ἰδιώτης (idiōtaʸs) N-NMS ‘a certain unbeliever or inquirer he is_being rebuked by all’ SR GNT 1 Cor 14:24 word 11

OET-LV: 24 But if all may _be _prophesying, and may _come _in a_certain unbeliever or inquirer, he _is _being _rebuked by all, he _is _being _examined by all, (CO1_14:24)

OET-RV: 24 But if they were all prophesying instead and some inquirers or unbelievers came in, they’d be convicted of their sinfulness and called to account by them all. (CO1 14:24)

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