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Koine Greek wordlink #121302

SR GNT 2 Cor 2:8 κυρῶσαι (kurōsai) ‘therefore I am exhorting you_all to confirm toward him love’ Strongs=29640 Lemma=kuroō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form κυρῶσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κυρῶσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to confirm’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kuroō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘having_been confirmed’, ‘to confirm’.

Greek words (1) other than κυρῶσαι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘confirm’

ROM 15:8 βεβαιῶσαι (bebaiōsai) V-NAA···· Lemma=bebaioō ‘of god in_order that to confirm the promises to the’ SR GNT Rom 15:8 word 16

OET-LV: 8 I _am _saying for the_chosen _one /messiah a_servant to _have _become of_the_circumcision for the_truth of_god, in _order that to _confirm the promises to _the fathers (ROM_15:8)

OET-RV: 8 I can tell you that Messiah became a servant of the circumcised Jews so that God’s truth will be seen by its confirming of the promises that were made to our ancestors, (ROM 15:8)

Key: V=verb