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Koine Greek wordlink #126668

SR GNT Gal 3:17 καταργῆσαι (katargaʸsai) ‘is annulling as in_order that to nullify the promise’ Strongs=26730 Lemma=katargeō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=58 AD TimeSeries=Sojourn_in_Canaan_and_Egypt Refers to Word #126663

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Only use of identical word form καταργῆσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταργῆσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to nullify’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katargeō’ have 19 different glosses: ‘being nullified’, ‘being wasted’, ‘has_been nullified’, ‘having nullified’, ‘is_being nullified is’, ‘may_be nullified’, ‘to nullify’, ‘will_be nullifying’, ‘will_be_being nullified’, ‘I have nullified’, ‘he may nullify’, ‘it is wasting’, ‘it is_being nullified’, ‘it will_be_being nullified’, ‘she has_been released’, ‘they will_be_being nullified’, ‘we are nullifying’, ‘we were released’, ‘you_all were released’.

Greek words (3) other than καταργῆσαι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘nullify’

1 COR 1:28 καταργήσῃ (katargaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘in_order_that the things being he may nullify’ SR GNT 1 Cor 1:28 word 21

OET-LV: 28 and the insignificant of _the world and the things having _been _scorned chose the god, the things not being, in _order _that the things being he _may _nullify, (CO1_1:28)

OET-RV: 28 He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, (CO1 1:28)

1 COR 15:24 καταργήσῃ (katargaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘even the father when he may nullify all beginning and’ SR GNT 1 Cor 15:24 word 18

OET-LV: 24 thereafter the end, when he _may _be _giving _over the kingdom the to_god even the_father, when he _may _nullify all beginning, and all authority, and power. (CO1_15:24)

OET-RV: 24 Then the end will come when he hands over the kingship to God the Father after he’s destroyed all rule, and all authority and power, (CO1 15:24)

HEB 2:14 καταργήσῃ (katargaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘through his death he may nullify the one the power’ SR GNT Heb 2:14 word 21

OET-LV: 14 Therefore because the little _children has _sharing of _blood and of _flesh, also he likewise partook of _the same things, in _order _that through his death, he _may _nullify the one the power holding of_ the _death, this is the devil, (HEB_2:14)

OET-RV: 14 So because the ‘little children’ are all made of flesh and blood, he also became a man to be just like them, so that through his death, he could nullify the power of death (which comes from the devil) (HEB 2:14)

Key: V=verb