Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #121482

SR GNT 2 Cor 3:1 συνιστάνειν (sunistanein) ‘we are beginning again ourselves to_be commending or not we are needing’ Strongs=49210 Lemma=sunistanō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #120621 Person=Paul Refers to Word #121076 Refers to Word #121078 Refers to Word #121382 Person=Titus

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Only use of identical word form συνιστάνειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘συνιστάνειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be commending’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘sunistanō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘to_be commending’, ‘I am demonstrating’, ‘we are commending’, ‘commending’.

Greek words (7) other than συνιστάνειν (V-NPA····) with a gloss related to ‘commending’

ROM 16:1 συνίστημι (sunistaʸmi) V-IPA1··S Lemma=sunistēmi ‘I am commending and to you_all Foibaʸ’ SR GNT Rom 16:1 word 1

OET-LV: 16 And I _am _commending to _you _all Foibaʸ, the sister of _us, being also a_servant of _the assembly which in Kegⱪreai, (ROM_16:1)

OET-RV: 16 I’m commending our sister Phoebe to you all—she’s a servant in the assembly at Cenchreae. (ROM 16:1)

2 COR 4:2 συνιστάνοντες (sunistanontes) V-PPA·NMP ‘by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every’ SR GNT 2 Cor 4:2 word 22

OET-LV: 2 But we _renounced the hidden things of_ the _shame, neither walking in craftiness, nor falsifying the message of_ the _god, but the by _manifestation of _the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of _people before the god. (CO2_4:2)

OET-RV: 2 but rather, we have renounced any shameful things that were hidden and continue our spiritual journey. Avoiding deception and taking care not to distort God’s message, we present the truth clearly even as we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God. (CO2 4:2)

2 COR 5:12 συνιστάνομεν (sunistanomen) V-IPA1··P ‘not again ourselves we are commending to you_all but opportunity’ SR GNT 2 Cor 5:12 word 5

OET-LV: 12 Not again ourselves we _are _commending to _you _all, but opportunity giving to _you _all of _boast for us, in _order _that you _all _may _be _having toward the ones in appearance boasting, and not in the_heart. (CO2_5:12)

OET-RV: 12 Again, we’re not trying to promote ourselves to you, but we’re giving you all an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can respond to those who take pride in outside appearances rather than in what’s in the heart. (CO2 5:12)

2 COR 6:4 συνιστάντες (sunistantes) V-PPA·NMP Lemma=sunistēmi ‘but in everything commending ourselves as of god’ SR GNT 2 Cor 6:4 word 4

OET-LV: 4 But in everything commending ourselves as of_god servants: in endurance great, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses, (CO2_6:4)

OET-RV: 4 but as God’s servants we commend ourselves in every way—by great endurance when facing afflictions, hardships, calamities, (CO2 6:4)

2 COR 10:12 συνιστανόντων (sunistanontōn) V-PPA·GMP ‘with some of the ones themselves commending but they among’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:12 word 12

OET-LV: 12 For/Because not we _are _daring to _classify or to _compare ourselves, with _some of _the ones themselves commending, but they among themselves, themselves measuring and comparing themselves with _themselves, not are _understanding. (CO2_10:12)

OET-RV: 12 We don’t dare to classify ourselves or compare with some of those who commend themselves, but they measure and compare themselves with each other—not understanding what they’re doing. (CO2 10:12)

2 COR 10:18 συνιστάνων (sunistanōn) V-PPA·NMS ‘for the one himself commending that one is approved’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:18 word 6

OET-LV: 18 For/Because not the one himself commending, that one approved, is but whom the master is _commending. (CO2_10:18)

OET-RV: 18 because it’s not the people who commend themselves that are approved, but those who the master commends. (CO2 10:18)

2 COR 10:18 συνίστησιν (sunistaʸsin) V-IPA3··S Lemma=sunistēmi ‘whom the master is commending’ SR GNT 2 Cor 10:18 word 15

OET-LV: 18 For/Because not the one himself commending, that one approved, is but whom the master is _commending. (CO2_10:18)

OET-RV: 18 because it’s not the people who commend themselves that are approved, but those who the master commends. (CO2 10:18)

Key: V=verb