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Koine Greek wordlink #130093

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SR GNT Eph 3:18 καταλαβέσθαι (katalabesthai) ‘in_order_that you_all may have_strength to grasp with all the’ Strongs=26380 Lemma=katalambanō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=middle
Refers to Word #129816

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Only use of identical word form καταλαβέσθαι (V-NAM....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταλαβέσθαι’ (V-NAM....) is always and only glossed as ‘to grasp’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katalambanō’ have 10 different glosses: ‘having grasped’, ‘may grasp’, ‘to grasp’, ‘to_have grasped it’, ‘I am grasping’, ‘I may grasp’, ‘I was grasped’, ‘it may grasp’, ‘you_all may grasp it’, ‘grasped’.

Greek words (5) other than καταλαβέσθαι (V-NAM....) with a gloss related to ‘grasp’

YHN 12:35 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘not darkness you_all may grasp and the one walking’ SR GNT Yhn 12:35 word 28

MARK 9:18 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘and wherever him it may grasp it is attacking him and’ SR GNT Mark 9:18 word 6

1COR 9:24 καταλάβητε (katalabaʸte) V-SAA2..P ‘thus be running in_order_that you_all may grasp it’ SR GNT 1Cor 9:24 word 19

PHP 3:12 καταλάβω (katalabō) V-SAA1..S ‘but if also I may grasp in that also’ SR GNT Php 3:12 word 15

1TH 5:4 καταλάβῃ (katalabaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘you_all like thieves may grasp’ SR GNT 1Th 5:4 word 16

Key: V=verb NAM....=infinitive,aorist,middle SAA1..S=subjunctive,aorist,active,1st person singular SAA2..P=subjunctive,aorist,active,2nd person plural SAA3..S=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person singular