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Koine Greek wordlink #129424

SR GNT Eph 4:14 κυβείᾳ (kubeia) ‘of teaching in the trickery of people in craftiness’ Strongs=29400 Lemma=kubeia^*
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form κυβείᾳ (N-DFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κυβείᾳ’ (N-DFS) is always and only glossed as ‘trickery’.

Eph 4:14 ‘of teaching in the trickery of people in craftiness’ SR GNT Eph 4:14 word 16

OET-LV: 14 in _order _that no _longer we _may _be infants, being _tossed _by _waves and being _carried _about by _every wind of_ the _teaching in the trickery of_ the _people, in craftiness with the scheming of_ the _deception, (EPH_4:14)

OET-RV: 14 Then we’ll no longer be like children in our faith, tossed around by waves and being blown by every wind of teaching used to trick us or by crafty people who scheme how to deceive us. (EPH 4:14)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘kubeia’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun DFS=dative,feminine,singular