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Koine Greek wordlink #116018

SR GNT 1 Cor 8:1 φυσιοῖ (fusioi) ‘knowledge we are having knowledge is making_arrogant but love is building’ Strongs=54480 Lemma=fusioō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form φυσιοῖ (V-IPA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘φυσιοῖ’ (V-IPA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘is making_arrogant’.

1 Cor 8:1 ‘knowledge we are having knowledge is making_arrogant but love is building’ SR GNT 1 Cor 8:1 word 13

OET-LV:  And concerning the idol _sacrificed things, we _have _known that all knowledge we _are _having. The knowledge is _making _arrogant, but the love is _building. (CO1_8:1)

OET-RV:  Now, concerning food that’s been sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have ‘knowledge’—knowledge breeds conceit but love gives inner strength. (CO1 8:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘fusioō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘being arrogant’, ‘having_been arrogant’, ‘is making_arrogant’, ‘is_being arrogant’, ‘were arrogant’, ‘you_all be_being arrogant’.

Key: V=verb