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Koine Greek wordlink #116717

SR GNT 1 Cor 9:24 καταλάβητε (katalabaʸte) ‘thus be running in_order_that you_all may grasp it’ Strongs=26380 Lemma=katalambanō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=59 AD Refers to Word #115736

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Only use of identical word form καταλάβητε (V-SAA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταλάβητε’ (V-SAA2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘you_all may grasp it’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katalambanō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘having grasped’, ‘having_been grasped’, ‘may grasp’, ‘to grasp’, ‘to_have grasped it’, ‘was taken’, ‘I am grasping’, ‘I may grasp’, ‘I was grasped’, ‘it may grasp’, ‘you_all may grasp it’, ‘grasped’.

Greek words (5) other than καταλάβητε (V-SAA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘grasp’

YHN 12:35 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘not darkness you_all may grasp and the one walking’ SR GNT Yhn 12:35 word 28

OET-LV: 35 Therefore the Yaʸsous said to _them: The light is with you _all still a_little time. be _walking while you _all _are _having the light, in _order _that you _all may_ not _grasp darkness, and the one walking in the darkness, has_ not _known where he _is _going. (JHN_12:35)

OET-RV: 35 Yeshua answered them, “The light will be among you all for just a little bit longer, so get walking while you have the light so that you won’t have to deal with darkness. Anyone walking in the dark doesn’t know where they’re going. (JHN 12:35)

MARK 9:18 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘and wherever him it may grasp it is attacking him and’ SR GNT Mark 9:18 word 6

OET-LV: 18 And wherever it _may _grasp if him, it _is _attacking him, and he _is _foaming and is _grating his teeth and is _being _paralyzed. And I _told to _the apprentices/followers of _you that they _may _throw_ it _out, and they_ not _prevailed. (MRK_9:18)

OET-RV: 18 Whenever it takes hold of him, it attacks him and he starts foaming at the mouth and grating his teeth and his joints lock up. I tried to get your followers to command it to leave but they couldn’t.” (MRK 9:18)

EPH 3:18 καταλαβέσθαι (katalabesthai) V-NAM···· ‘in_order_that you_all may have_strength to grasp with all the’ SR GNT Eph 3:18 word 3

OET-LV: 18 in _order _that you _all _may _have _strength to _grasp with all the holy ones, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, (EPH_3:18)

OET-RV: 18 so that just like the dedicated ones, you all will also be strong enough to understand the width and length and height and depth of (EPH 3:18)

PHP 3:12 καταλάβω (katalabō) V-SAA1··S ‘but if also I may grasp in that also’ SR GNT Php 3:12 word 15

OET-LV: 12 Not that already I _received it, or already I _have _been _perfected, but I _am _pursuing, if also I _may _grasp, in that also I _was _grasped by chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa). (PHP_3:12)

OET-RV: 12 I haven’t already received that, or already reached perfection, but I’m running hard to try to grab it, in the same way that I was grabbed by Messiah Yeshua. (PHP 3:12)

1 TH 5:4 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘you_all like thieves may grasp’ SR GNT 1 Th 5:4 word 16

OET-LV: 4 But you _all, brothers, not are in darkness, in _order _that the day you _all like thieves may _grasp. (TH1_5:4)

OET-RV: 4 but you, brothers and sisters, aren’t in darkness and likely to get surprised by a thief in the night (TH1 5:4)

Key: V=verb