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Koine Greek wordlink #121994

SR GNT 2 Cor 4:8 ἐξαπορούμενοι (exaporoumenoi) ‘perplexing but not despairing’ Strongs=18200 Lemma=exaporeō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=middle case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
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 ἐξαπορούμενοι (V-PPM·NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐξαπορούμενοι’ (V-PPM·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘despairing’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘exaporeō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘to_be despairing’, ‘despairing’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐξαπορούμενοι (V-PPM·NMP) with a gloss related to ‘despairing’

2 COR 1:8 ἐξαπορηθῆναι (exaporaʸthaʸnai) V-NAP···· ‘our power we were weighed_down so_as to_be despairing us even to_be living’ SR GNT 2 Cor 1:8 word 26

OET-LV: 8 For/Because not we _are _wanting you _all to _be _not _knowing, brothers, about the tribulation of _us which having _become in the Asia, that against excess beyond ^our_power we _were _weighed _down, so _as to _be _despairing us even which to _be _living. (CO2_1:8)

OET-RV: 8 Brothers and sisters, we don’t want you to miss out on knowing about our difficulties in the province of Asia Minor. We were weighed down with a situation totally beyond our power, so much so that we thought we wouldn’t live through it. (CO2 1:8)

Key: V=verb