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Koine Greek wordlink #145032

SR GNT Heb 11:12 ἀναρίθμητος (anarithmaʸtos) ‘of the sea the innumerable’ Strongs=3820 Lemma=anarithmētos^*
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἀναρίθμητος (S-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀναρίθμητος’ (S-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘innumerable’.

Heb 11:12 ‘of the sea the innumerable’ SR GNT Heb 11:12 word 29

OET-LV: 12 Therefore also from one man they _were _born, and these having _been _made _dead: as the stars of _the sky the in _multitude, and as the sand, which by the lip of _the sea, the innumerable. (HEB_11:12)

OET-RV: 12 So it was that descendants came from that one man in his old age and they became as numerous as the stars in the sky and uncountable like grains of sand on the beach. (HEB 11:12)

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

Key: S=substantive adjective NFS=nominative,feminine,singular