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Koine Greek wordlink #114943

SR GNT 1 Cor 6:5 διακρῖναι (diakrinai) ‘wise who will_be able to distinguish among your midst of the’ Strongs=12520 Lemma=diakrinō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=59 AD Refers to Word #114937

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Only use of identical word form διακρῖναι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διακρῖναι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to distinguish’.

1 Cor 6:5 ‘wise who will_be able to distinguish among your midst of the’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:5 word 19

OET-LV: 5 For/Because shame to _you _all I _am _saying. Thus not there _is among you _all no _one wise, who will _be _able to _distinguish among ^your_midst of _the brother of _him? (CO1_6:5)

OET-RV: 5 I say that to your shame. Don’t you have anyone among you all who can arbitrate between believers? (CO1 6:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘diakrinō’ have 15 different glosses: ‘having doubted’, ‘is distinguishing’, ‘let_be distinguishing’, ‘may_be doubted’, ‘to distinguish’, ‘to_be distinguishing’, ‘were doubting’, ‘he was doubted’, ‘he distinguished’, ‘it may_be doubted’, ‘we were distinguishing’, ‘you_all were distinguished’, ‘disputing’, ‘distinguishing’, ‘doubting’.

Key: V=verb