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Koine Greek wordlink #124515

SR GNT 2 Cor 11:12 ἀφορμήν (aformaʸn) ‘opportunity of the ones wanting an opportunity in_order_that in what’ Strongs=8740 Lemma=aformē
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (6) of identical word form ἀφορμήν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀφορμήν’ (N-AFS) has 2 different glosses: ‘an opportunity’, ‘opportunity’.

Rom 7:8 ‘opportunity but having taken sin’ SR GNT Rom 7:8 word 1

OET-LV: 8 But opportunity having _taken the sin by the command, produced in me all covetousness, because/for apart _from the_law, sin dead. (ROM_7:8)

OET-RV: 8 But sin took the opportunity from that command to produce covetousness in me, because sin would be dead apart from the Law. (ROM 7:8)

Rom 7:11 ‘for sin an opportunity having taken by the’ SR GNT Rom 7:11 word 4

OET-LV: 11 For/Because the sin an_opportunity having _taken by the command, deceived me and by it killed _off me. (ROM_7:11)

OET-RV: 11 Sin deceived me when the command gave it an opportunity, and in doing so, it killed me. (ROM 7:11)

2 Cor 5:12 ‘we are commending to you_all but opportunity giving to you_all of boast’ SR GNT 2 Cor 5:12 word 8

OET-LV: 12 Not again ourselves we _are _commending to _you _all, but opportunity giving to _you _all of _boast for us, in _order _that you _all _may _be _having toward the ones in appearance boasting, and not in the_heart. (CO2_5:12)

OET-RV: 12 Again, we’re not trying to promote ourselves to you, but we’re giving you all an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can respond to those who take pride in outside appearances rather than in what’s in the heart. (CO2 5:12)

2 Cor 11:12 ‘in_order_that I may cut_off the opportunity of the ones wanting an opportunity’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:12 word 9

OET-LV: 12 But what I _am _doing, also I _will _be _doing, in _order _that I _may _cut _off the opportunity of _the ones wanting an_opportunity, in _order _that in what they _are _boasting, they _may _be _found as also we. (CO2_11:12)

OET-RV: 12 But what I’m doing, I’ll keep on doing, so that I can deny the opportunity to those people who are looking for an opportunity so that what they boast about, we’ll already be doing, (CO2 11:12)

Gal 5:13 ‘the freedom for an opportunity to the flesh but’ SR GNT Gal 5:13 word 12

OET-LV: 13 For/Because you _all were _called for freedom, brothers, only not use the freedom for an_opportunity to _the flesh, but through the love be _serving for _one _another. (GAL_5:13)

OET-RV: 13 Brothers and sisters, you were called into freedom. That doesn’t mean that you should use the freedom to do whatever your minds desire, but rather, you should be serving each other in love, (GAL 5:13)

1 Tim 5:14 ‘to_be bearing_children to_be keeping_house not_one opportunity to_be giving to the one opposing’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:14 word 8

OET-LV: 14 Therefore I _am _wishing the_younger women to _be _marrying, to _be _bearing _children, to _be _keeping _house, not _one opportunity to _be _giving of _insult to _the one opposing for _reason _of. (TI1_5:14)

OET-RV: 14 That’s why I prefer younger women to be getting married and having children, to keep house, and to avoid all situations where others could accuse them. (TI1 5:14)

Greek words (2) other than ἀφορμήν (N-AFS) with a gloss related to ‘opportunity’

MAT 26:16 εὐκαιρίαν (eukairian) N-AFS Lemma=eukairia ‘from then he was seeking an opportunity in_order_that him he may give_over’ SR GNT Mat 26:16 word 6

OET-LV: 16 And from then he _was _seeking an_opportunity, in _order _that he _may _give_ him _over. (MAT_26:16)

OET-RV: 16 so from then on, he was looking for an opportunity to hand him over. (MAT 26:16)

LUKE 22:6 εὐκαιρίαν (eukairian) N-AFS Lemma=eukairia ‘he consented and was seeking opportunity to give_over him without’ SR GNT Luke 22:6 word 6

OET-LV: 6 And he _consented, and was _seeking opportunity which to _give_ him _over to _them without a_crowd. (LUK_22:6)

OET-RV: 6 so agreeing to that, he started looking for an opportunity to turn Yeshua over to them sometime when he wasn’t surrounded by a crowd. (LUK 22:6)

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