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Koine Greek wordlink #124831

SR GNT 2 Cor 11:33 ἐχαλάσθην (eⱪalasthaʸn) ‘a window in a basket I was lowered through the wall’ Strongs=54650 Lemma=χalaō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=passive person=1st number=singular
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #123972 Person=Paul

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Only use of identical word form ἐχαλάσθην (V-IAP1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐχαλάσθην’ (V-IAP1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I was lowered’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘χalaō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘having lowered’, ‘having lowered him’, ‘I was lowered’, ‘I will_be lowering’, ‘they are lowering’, ‘lower’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐχαλάσθην (V-IAP1··S) with a gloss related to ‘lowered’

ACTs 9:25 χαλάσαντες (ⱪalasantes) V-PAA·NMP ‘wall they let_down him having lowered him in a basket’ SR GNT Acts 9:25 word 15

OET-LV: 25 and the apprentices/followers of _him having _taken him by _night through the wall, they _let_ him _down, having _lowered him in a_basket. (ACT_9:25)

OET-RV: 25 but his supporters took him to the city wall at night time and lowered him down in a basket. (ACT 9:25)

ACTs 27:17 χαλάσαντες (ⱪalasantes) V-PAA·NMP ‘the shallows_of Surtis they may run_aground having lowered the gear thus’ SR GNT Acts 27:17 word 16

OET-LV: 17 which having _taken _up, they _were _resorting to _helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they _may _run _aground into the shallows _of Surtis, having _lowered the gear, thus they _were _being _driven _along. (ACT_27:17)

OET-RV: 17 and then bring it up on board. Then ropes were used to wrap around the ship in case it were to run aground into the shallows at Syrtis and the gear was lowered, allowing the wind to drive the ship along. (ACT 27:17)

ACTs 27:30 χαλασάντων (ⱪalasantōn) V-PAA·GMP ‘the ship and having lowered the lifeboat into’ SR GNT Acts 27:30 word 11

OET-LV: 30 And the the_sailors seeking to _flee out _of the ship, and having _lowered the lifeboat into the sea, on _under _pretense as going to _be _stretching _out anchors from the_bow, (ACT_27:30)

OET-RV: 30 Then the sailors lowered the lifeboat as if planning to pull out some anchors from the bow, but really planning to desert the ship. (ACT 27:30)

Key: V=verb