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Koine Greek wordlink #130320

SR GNT Eph 4:11 ποιμένας (poimenas) ‘good_message_preachers the on_the_other_hand shepherds and teachers’ Strongs=41660 Lemma=poimēn
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=plural

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Only use of identical word form ποιμένας (N-AMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ποιμένας’ (N-AMP) is always and only glossed as ‘shepherds’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘poimēn’ have 5 different glosses: ‘a shepherd’, ‘the shepherd’, ‘Shepherd’, ‘shepherd’, ‘shepherds’.

Greek words (4) other than ποιμένας (N-AMP) with a gloss related to ‘shepherds’

LUKE 2:8 ποιμένες (poimenes) N-NMP ‘and shepherds were in the’ SR GNT Luke 2:8 word 2

LUKE 2:15 ποιμένες (poimenes) N-NMP ‘the messengers the shepherds were saying to one_another’ SR GNT Luke 2:15 word 18

LUKE 2:18 ποιμένων (poimenōn) N-GMP ‘having_been spoken by the shepherds to them’ SR GNT Luke 2:18 word 13

LUKE 2:20 ποιμένες (poimenes) N-NMP ‘and returned the shepherds glorifying and praising’ SR GNT Luke 2:20 word 5

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural