Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #133779

SR GNT Col 1:16 ἐξουσίαι (exousiai) ‘or rulers or authorities the things all by’ Strongs=18490 Lemma=exousia
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural

Note: With the help of a companion website, these word pages enable you to click through all the way back to photographs of the original manuscripts that the Open English Translation New Testament is translated from. If you go to the Statistical Restoration Greek page (by clicking on the SR Bible reference above), from there you can click on the original manuscript numbers (e.g., 𝔓1, 01, 02, etc.) in the Witness column there, to see their transcription of the original Greek page. From there, you can click on the 🔍 magnifying glass icon to view a photograph of the actual leaf of the codex. This is all part of the commitment of the Open English Translation team to be transparent about all levels of the Bible translation process right back to the original manuscripts.

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

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

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘exousia’ have 10 different glosses: ‘the authority’, ‘the right’, ‘to the authorities’, ‘to authorities’, ‘to authority’, ‘authorities’, ‘authority’, ‘domain’, ‘power’, ‘right’.

Greek words (7) other than ἐξουσίαι (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘authorities’

LUKE 12:11 ἐξουσίας (exousias) N-AFP ‘rulers and the authorities not you_all may worry how’ SR GNT Luke 12:11 word 19

ROM 13:1 ἐξουσίαις (exousiais) N-DFP ‘every soul to the authorities being_above let_be_being subjected not’ SR GNT Rom 13:1 word 4

EPH 3:10 ἐξουσίαις (exousiais) N-DFP ‘rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms’ SR GNT Eph 3:10 word 8

EPH 6:12 ἐξουσίας (exousias) N-AFP ‘rulers against the authorities against the world_rulers’ SR GNT Eph 6:12 word 19

COL 2:15 ἐξουσίας (exousias) N-AFP ‘rulers and the authorities he exposed them in public’ SR GNT Col 2:15 word 6

TIT 3:1 ἐξουσίαις (exousiais) N-DFP ‘be reminding them to rulers to authorities to_be being_subjected to_be yielding for’ SR GNT Tit 3:1 word 6

1PET 3:22 ἐξουσιῶν (exousiōn) N-GFP ‘to him with messengers and authorities and powers’ SR GNT 1Pet 3:22 word 15

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural DFP=dative,feminine,plural GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural