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Koine Greek wordlink #114501

SR GNT 1 Cor 4:15 παιδαγωγούς (paidagōgous) ‘if for ten_thousand tutors you_all may_be having in chosen_one/messiah’ Strongs=38070 Lemma=paidagōgos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form παιδαγωγούς (N-AMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘παιδαγωγούς’ (N-AMP) is always and only glossed as ‘tutors’.

1 Cor 4:15 ‘if for ten_thousand tutors you_all may_be having in chosen_one/messiah’ SR GNT 1 Cor 4:15 word 4

OET-LV: 15 For/Because if ten _thousand tutors you _all _may _be _having in chosen _one /messiah, but not many fathers, because/for in chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) through the good _message, I you _all bore. (CO1_4:15)

OET-RV: 15 because if you all would have thousands of guardians in Messiah, yet you wouldn’t have many ‘fathers’, because I fathered you in Messiah Yeshua by means of the good message. (CO1 4:15)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘paidagōgos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a tutor’, ‘tutor’, ‘tutors’.

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural