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Koine Greek wordlink #121618

SR GNT 2 Cor 3:7 ἀτενίσαι (atenisai) ‘so_as not to_be able to look_intently the sons of Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl)’ Strongs=8160 Lemma=atenizō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #121620

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἀτενίσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

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

2 Cor 3:13 ‘for that not to look_intently the sons of Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl)’ SR GNT 2 Cor 3:13 word 15

OET-LV: 13 and not just _as Mōsaʸs was _putting a_veil over the face of _him, because/for that not to _look _intently the sons of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl), to the end of _the thing being _wasted. (CO2_3:13)

OET-RV: 13 not just like Mosheh putting a veil over his face because the Israelis couldn’t even look at him when introducing a system that would be replaced. (CO2 3:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘atenizō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘having looked_intently’, ‘to look_intently’, ‘you_all are looking_intently’, ‘looking_intently’.

Key: V=verb