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Koine Greek wordlink #121964

SR GNT 2Cor 1:17 ἐχρησάμην (eⱪraʸsamaʸn) ‘surely_not consequently to lightness I resorted or what I am counselling’ Strongs=55300 Lemma=χraō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=middle person=1st number=singular
Refers to Word #121563 Person=Paul

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Only use of identical word form ἐχρησάμην (V-IAM1..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐχρησάμην’ (V-IAM1..S) is always and only glossed as ‘I resorted’.

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’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐχρησάμην (V-IAM1..S) with a gloss related to ‘resorted’

1COR 9:12 ἐχρησάμεθα (eⱪraʸsametha) V-IAM1..P ‘we but not we resorted to authority this but’ SR GNT 1Cor 9:12 word 13

1COR 9:15 κέχρημαι (keⱪraʸmai) V-IEM1..S ‘I but not have resorted to nothing of these things not’ SR GNT 1Cor 9:15 word 4

Key: V=verb IAM1..P=indicative,aorist,middle,1st person plural IAM1..S=indicative,aorist,middle,1st person singular IEM1..S=indicative,perfect,middle,1st person singular