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Koine Greek wordlink #126712

SR GNT Gal 3:19 μεσίτου (mesitou) ‘messengers in the hand of a mediator’ Strongs=33160 Lemma=mesitēs
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=singular
Year=58 AD

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Only use of identical word form μεσίτου (N-GMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μεσίτου’ (N-GMS) is always and only glossed as ‘of a mediator’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘mesitēs’ have 4 different glosses: ‘the mediator’, ‘of a mediator’, ‘to the mediator’, ‘mediator’.

Greek words (5) other than μεσίτου (N-GMS) with a gloss related to ‘mediator’

GAL 3:20 μεσίτης (mesitaʸs) N-NMS ‘the and mediator for one party not is’ SR GNT Gal 3:20 word 3

OET-LV: 20 And the mediator is not for _one party, but the god is one. (GAL_3:20)

OET-RV: 20 You don’t need a mediator if there’s only one party involved, and God is one. (GAL 3:20)

1 TIM 2:5 μεσίτης (mesitaʸs) N-NMS ‘god there_is one also mediator between god and humans’ SR GNT 1 Tim 2:5 word 6

OET-LV: 5 For/Because one god there _is, also one mediator between_god and humans, the_human chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), (TI1_2:5)

OET-RV: 5 There’s only one God and also one mediator between God and humankind and that’s the man Yeshua the messiah (TI1 2:5)

HEB 8:6 μεσίτης (mesitaʸs) N-NMS ‘of a better is covenant the mediator which on better’ SR GNT Heb 8:6 word 13

OET-LV: 6 On _the _other _hand now of_a_more _special he _has _obtained ministry, by _as _much _as also of_a_better is covenant the_mediator, which on better promises has _been _legislated. (HEB_8:6)

OET-RV: 6 But on the contrary, Yeshua has obtained a more special ministry because he’s the mediator of a better agreement which has been legislated with better promises. (HEB 8:6)

HEB 9:15 μεσίτης (mesitaʸs) N-NMS ‘this of a covenant new the mediator he is so_that death’ SR GNT Heb 9:15 word 7

OET-LV: 15 And because _of this, of_a_covenant new the_mediator he _is, so _that death having _become for the_redemption of _the concerning the first covenant transgressions, the promise may _receive the ones having _been _called of _the eternal inheritance. (HEB_9:15)

OET-RV: 15 So because of that, Yeshua is the mediator of a new agreement, so that his death leads to the ransom payment for those who’ve disobeyed the first agreement, so that now those who are called can receive the eternal inheritance. (HEB 9:15)

HEB 12:24 μεσίτῃ (mesitaʸ) N-DMS ‘and of a covenant new to the mediator Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) and to the blood’ SR GNT Heb 12:24 word 4

OET-LV: 24 and of_a_covenant new to_the_mediator, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), and to_the_blood of _sprinkling, a_better thing speaking than the Abel/(Heⱱel). (HEB_12:24)

OET-RV: 24 and to Yeshua, the mediator of a new agreement, and to the sprinkled blood that says even more than Hevel’s (Abel’s) blood did. (HEB 12:24)

Key: N=noun DMS=dative,masculine,singular GMS=genitive,masculine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular