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Koine Greek wordlink #115735

SR GNT 1 Cor 7:29 φημί (faʸmi) ‘this but I am saying brothers the season’ Strongs=53460 Lemma=fēmi
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form φημί (V-IPA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘φημί’ (V-IPA1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I am saying’.

1 Cor 10:15 ‘judge you_all what I am saying’ SR GNT 1 Cor 10:15 word 8

OET-LV: 15 As to _prudent ones I _am _speaking, judge you _all what I _am _saying. (CO1_10:15)

OET-RV: 15 I’m speaking to sensible people, so judge what I’m telling you for yourselves. (CO1 10:15)

1 Cor 10:19 ‘what therefore I am saying that an idol_sacrificed thing anything’ SR GNT 1 Cor 10:19 word 3

OET-LV: 19 Therefore what I _am _saying? That an_idol _sacrificed thing anything is, anything is? (CO1_10:19)

OET-RV: 19 So what am I saying? That whether or not food is sacrificed to idols means anything? Or that an idol is anything? (CO1 10:19)

1 Cor 15:50 ‘this and I am saying brothers that flesh’ SR GNT 1 Cor 15:50 word 3

OET-LV: 50 And this I _am _saying, brothers, that flesh and blood the_kingdom of_god to _inherit not is _able, nor the corruption, the indestructibility is _inheriting. (CO1_15:50)

OET-RV: 50 Now brothers and sisters, I can tell you all that our present physical bodies can’t inherit God’s kingdom, and nor can corrupt things inherit immortality. (CO1 15:50)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘fēmi’ have 7 different glosses: ‘are saying’, ‘is saying’, ‘was saying’, ‘I am saying’, ‘he is saying’, ‘he was saying’, ‘she is saying’.

Key: V=verb