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Koine Greek wordlink #116552

SR GNT 1 Cor 9:15 κενώσει (kenōsei) ‘boast of me no_one will_be emptying’ Strongs=27580 Lemma=kenoō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=future voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=59 AD

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Only use of identical word form κενώσει (V-IFA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κενώσει’ (V-IFA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘will_be emptying’.

1 Cor 9:15 ‘boast of me no_one will_be emptying’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:15 word 32

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)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kenoō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘has_been voided’, ‘may_be voided’, ‘will_be emptying’, ‘emptied’.

Key: V=verb