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Koine Greek wordlink #129366

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
Year=64 AD

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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

OET-LV: 8 And shepherds were in the the same region, lodging _in _the _fields and keeping watch the by _night over the flock of _them. (LUK_2:8)

OET-RV: 8 In that same area, there were some shepherds staying out in the fields where they kept watch over their flocks at night. (LUK 2:8)

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

OET-LV: 15 And it _became as the messengers went _away from them into the heaven, the shepherds were _saying to one _another: We _may_ indeed _pass _through as _far _as Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem), and we _may _see the message this the thing having _become, which the master made _known to _us. (LUK_2:15)

OET-RV: 15 Then as the messengers left them and went up into the sky, the shepherds said to each other, “Well, we’ll certainly go into Bethlehem so we can see what this was about that Yahweh has let us know about.” (LUK 2:15)

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

OET-LV: 18 And all the ones having _heard, marvelled concerning the things having _been _spoken by the shepherds to them. (LUK_2:18)

OET-RV: 18 Everyone who heard this was amazed at what the shepherds told them, (LUK 2:18)

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

OET-LV: 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising the god for all things which they _heard and saw, as was _spoken to them. (LUK_2:20)

OET-RV: 20 Finally the shepherds returned back to their fields—they were worshipping and praising God for what they’d heard and how they’d seen it exactly like they’d been told. (LUK 2:20)

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