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Koine Greek wordlink #132825

SR GNT Col 1:16 κυριότητες (kuriotaʸtes) ‘whether thrones or masterships or rulers or’ Strongs=29630 Lemma=kuriotēs
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form κυριότητες (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κυριότητες’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘masterships’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘κυριότητες’ (N-NFP) was always and only glossed as ‘lordships’).

Col 1:16 ‘whether thrones or masterships or rulers or’ SR GNT Col 1:16 word 25

OET-LV: 16 because by him was _created the things all in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or masterships, or rulers, or authorities, all the things has _been _created by him and for him. (COL_1:16)

OET-RV: 16 because it was him who created everything in the heavens and on the earth, both visible and invisible, including all authorities such as kingdoms and governments. Yes, everything was created by him and for him. (COL 1:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kuriotēs’ have 3 different glosses: ‘of mastership’, ‘mastership’, ‘masterships’.

Key: N=noun NFP=nominative,feminine,plural