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Koine Greek wordlink #130325

SR GNT Eph 6:4 ἐκτρέφετε (ektrefete) ‘children of you_all but be nurturing them in the discipline’ Strongs=16250 Lemma=ektrefō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=present voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=64 AD Refers to Word #130318

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Only use of identical word form ἐκτρέφετε (V-MPA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐκτρέφετε’ (V-MPA2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘be nurturing’.

Eph 6:4 ‘children of you_all but be nurturing them in the discipline’ SR GNT Eph 6:4 word 10

OET-LV: 4 And the fathers, not be _angering the children of _you _all, but be _nurturing them in the_discipline and admonition of_the_master. (EPH_6:4)

OET-RV: 4 Fathers, don’t provoke your children to anger, but bring them up caringly and teach them disciplines and instructions from Yahweh. (EPH 6:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ektrefō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘be nurturing’, ‘is nurturing’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐκτρέφετε (V-MPA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘nurturing’

EPH 5:29 ἐκτρέφει (ektrefei) V-IPA3··S ‘flesh hated but is nurturing and is cherishing it’ SR GNT Eph 5:29 word 10

OET-LV: 29 For/Because no _one once hated the flesh of _himself, but is _nurturing and is _cherishing it, as the chosen _one /messiah also does for _the assembly, (EPH_5:29)

OET-RV: 29 No one hates their own body, but they feed and look after it, just like the messiah does for the church (EPH 5:29)

Key: V=verb