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Koine Greek wordlink #116481

SR GNT 1 Cor 9:12 ἐγκοπήν (egkopaʸn) ‘in_order_that not any hindrance we may give to the good_message’ Strongs=14640 Lemma=egkopē^*
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἐγκοπήν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐγκοπήν’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘hindrance’.

1 Cor 9:12 ‘in_order_that not any hindrance we may give to the good_message’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:12 word 25

OET-LV: 12 If others of _the over _you _all authority are _partaking, not rather we? But not we _resorted to_ the _authority this, but all things we _are _enduring, in _order _that not any hindrance we _may _give to _the good _message of _the chosen _one /messiah. (CO1_9:12)

OET-RV: 12 If other people have the right to this kind of support, don’t we have a greater right?
¶ But we never took advantage of that right—instead we endured everything so that we wouldn’t do anything to hinder the messiah’s good message from spreading. (CO1 9:12)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘egkopē’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular