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Koine Greek wordlink #123679

SR GNT 2 Cor 9:2 Μακεδόσιν (Makedosin) ‘concerning you_all I am boasting to the ones_from_Makedonia that Aⱪaia has prepared’ Strongs=31100 Lemma=makedōn
Word role=proper noun case=dative gender=masculine number=plural
Location=Macedonia Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form Μακεδόσιν (N-DMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Μακεδόσιν’ (N-DMP) is always and only glossed as ‘to the ones_from_Makedonia’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Μακεδόσιν’ (N-DMP) was always and only glossed as ‘to the Macedonians’).

2 Cor 9:2 ‘concerning you_all I am boasting to the ones_from_Makedonia that Aⱪaia has prepared’ SR GNT 2 Cor 9:2 word 12

OET-LV: 2 For/Because I _have _known the readiness of _you _all, which concerning you _all I _am _boasting to_the_ones_from _Makedonia, that Aⱪaia has _prepared from last _year, and the of _you _all zeal provoked the more of _them. (CO2_9:2)

OET-RV: 2 because I know about your readiness to help and I’ve been boasting about it to those from Macedonia—that you all in Achaia were ready last year—and your zeal provoked more of them to act. (CO2 9:2)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘makedōn’ have 4 different glosses: ‘ones_from_Makedonia’, ‘a from_Makedonia’, ‘to the ones_from_Makedonia’, ‘from_Makedonia’.

Key: N=noun DMP=dative,masculine,plural