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Koine Greek wordlink #121199

SR GNT 2 Cor 2:2 εὐφραίνων (eufrainōn) ‘you_all also who is gladdening me except the one’ Strongs=21650 Lemma=eufrainō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form εὐφραίνων (V-PPA·NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘εὐφραίνων’ (V-PPA·NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘gladdening’.

2 Cor 2:2 ‘you_all also who is gladdening me except the one’ SR GNT 2 Cor 2:2 word 11

OET-LV: 2 For/Because if I am _sorrowing you _all, also who is which gladdening me, except not/lest the one being _sorrowed by me? (CO2_2:2)

OET-RV: 2 because if I’m making you all upset, who would be left to cheer me up except for the people that I would’ve just upset? (CO2 2:2)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘eufrainō’ have 11 different glosses: ‘are_being gladdened’, ‘be gladdened’, ‘be_being gladdened’, ‘being gladdened’, ‘to_be gladdened’, ‘to_be_being gladdened’, ‘was gladdened’, ‘I may_be gladdened’, ‘they were_being gladdened’, ‘we may_be gladdened’, ‘gladdening’.

Key: V=verb