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Koine Greek wordlink #125485

SR GNT 2 Cor 13:10 χρήσωμαι (ⱪraʸsōmai) ‘being_present not severely I may give_treatment according_to the authority’ Strongs=55300 Lemma=χraō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=middle person=1st number=singular
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #123972 Person=Paul

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Only use of identical word form χρήσωμαι (V-SAM1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘χρήσωμαι’ (V-SAM1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I may give_treatment’.

2 Cor 13:10 ‘being_present not severely I may give_treatment according_to the authority’ SR GNT 2 Cor 13:10 word 11

OET-LV: 10 Because _of this these things being _absent I _am _writing, in _order _that being _present not severely I _may _give _treatment, according _to the authority that the master gave to _me for building and not for tearing _down. (CO2_13:10)

OET-RV: 10 I’m writing these things while I’m absent, so that when I’m present I won’t have to treat you all severely according to the authority that the master gave me for building and not for tearing down. (CO2 13:10)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘χraō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘be giving_treatment’, ‘have resorted’, ‘having given_treatment’, ‘may_be resorting’, ‘I may give_treatment’, ‘I resorted’, ‘they were resorting’, ‘we are resorting’, ‘we resorted’, ‘lend’, ‘resort_to it’, ‘using’.

Key: V=verb