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Koine Greek wordlink #116469

SR GNT 1 Cor 9:12 ἐχρησάμεθα (eⱪraʸsametha) ‘we but not we resorted to authority this but’ Strongs=55300 Lemma=χraō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=middle person=1st number=plural
Year=59 AD Refers to Word #114224 Person=Paul Refers to Word #116345 Person=Barnabas

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Only use of identical word form ἐχρησάμεθα (V-IAM1··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐχρησάμεθα’ (V-IAM1··P) is always and only glossed as ‘we resorted’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘χraō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘be giving_treatment’, ‘have resorted’, ‘having given_treatment’, ‘may_be resorting’, ‘I may give_treatment’, ‘I resorted’, ‘they were resorting’, ‘we are resorting’, ‘we resorted’, ‘lend’, ‘resort_to it’, ‘using’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐχρησάμεθα (V-IAM1··P) with a gloss related to ‘resorted’

1 COR 9:15 κέχρημαι (keⱪraʸmai) V-IEM1··S ‘I but not have resorted to nothing of these things not’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:15 word 4

OET-LV: 15 But I not have _resorted to _nothing of _these things. Not and I _wrote these things, in _order _that thus it _may _become with me, because/for good it _is for _me rather to _die _off, than the boast of _me no _one will _be _emptying. (CO1_9:15)

OET-RV: 15 But I haven’t taken advantage of any of those rights, and even now, I’m not writing this to ask for material support for myself—I’d rather die than have someone deprive me of this reason for boasting. (CO1 9:15)

2 COR 1:17 ἐχρησάμην (eⱪraʸsamaʸn) V-IAM1··S ‘surely_not consequently to lightness I resorted or what I am counselling’ SR GNT 2 Cor 1:17 word 10

OET-LV: 17 Therefore this wishing, surely _not consequently to_ the _lightness I _resorted? Or what I _am _counselling, according _to flesh I _am _counselling, in _order _that may _be with me the Yes, yes, and which No, no? (CO2_1:17)

OET-RV: 17 Was I just being light-headed when I hoped for that? Or what was I thinking? Was I just thinking in worldly ways where yes, I might, and at the same time, no, I might not? (CO2 1:17)

Key: V=verb