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Koine Greek wordlink #145367

SR GNT Heb 11:33 λεόντων (leontōn) ‘by promises shut the mouths of lions’ Strongs=30230 Lemma=leōn
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form λεόντων (N-GMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λεόντων’ (N-GMP) is always and only glossed as ‘of lions’.

Rev 9:8 ‘teeth of them like of lions were’ SR GNT Rev 9:8 word 12

OET-LV: 8 and they _were _having hairs like the_hairs of _women, and the teeth of _them like of _lions were, (REV_9:8)

OET-RV: 8 Their hair was like women’s hair and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. (REV 9:8)

Rev 9:17 ‘horses like the heads of lions and out_of the’ SR GNT Rev 9:17 word 30

OET-LV: 17 And thus I _saw the horses in my vision, and the ones sitting on them: having breastplates fiery, and hyacinthine, and sulfurous, and the heads of _the horses like the_heads of _lions, and out _of the mouths of _them is _going _out fire, and smoke, and sulfur. (REV_9:17)

OET-RV: 17 and this is what the horses and their riders looked like in my vision: the soldiers wore chestplates that were red like fire, blue like sapphire, and yellow like sulfur. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and fumes of burning sulfur came out of their mouths. (REV 9:17)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘leōn’ have 6 different glosses: ‘a lion’, ‘of a lion’, ‘of the lion’, ‘of lions’, ‘to a lion’, ‘lion’.

Key: N=noun GMP=genitive,masculine,plural