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Koine Greek wordlink #124233

SR GNT 2 Cor 10:14 ἐφικνούμενοι (efiknoumenoi) ‘for as not reaching to you_all we are overextending’ Strongs=21850 Lemma=efikneomai
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=middle case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #122231 Refers to Word #123750

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Only use of identical word form ἐφικνούμενοι (V-PPM·NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐφικνούμενοι’ (V-PPM·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘reaching’.

2 Cor 10:14 ‘for as not reaching to you_all we are overextending’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:14 word 7

OET-LV: 14 not not For/Because as reaching to you _all, we _are _overextending ourselves, because/for until also of _you _all we _came in the good _message of _the chosen _one /messiah, (CO2_10:14)

OET-RV: 14 In not reaching you we don’t overextend ourselves, because we came your way with the good message about the messiah. (CO2 10:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘efikneomai’ have 2 different glosses: ‘to reach’, ‘reaching’.

Key: V=verb