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Koine Greek wordlink #144825

SR GNT Heb 11:4 Ἂβελ (Abel) ‘by faith a more excellent sacrifice Abel/(Heⱱel) than Kain/(Qayin) offered’ Strongs=60 Lemma=abel
Word role=proper noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Person=Abel Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form Ἂβελ (N-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἂβελ’ (N-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘Abel/(Heⱱel)’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Ἂβελ’ (N-NMS) was always and only glossed as ‘Abel’).

Heb 11:4 ‘by faith a more excellent sacrifice Abel/(Heⱱel) than Kain/(Qayin) offered’ SR GNT Heb 11:4 word 4

OET-LV: 4 By _faith a_more excellent sacrifice, Abel/(Heⱱel) than Kain/(Qayin) offered to_ the _god, through which he _was _attested to _be righteous, testifying to the gifts of _him the of_god, and through it, having _died _off still he _is _speaking. (HEB_11:4)

OET-RV: 4 By faith Hevel (Abel) offered a more satisfactory sacrifice to God than Kayin (Cain), and as a result, he was declared to be righteous when God testified about his gifts, and through his faith, he still speaks despite being long dead. (HEB 11:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘abel’ have 2 different glosses: ‘of Abel/(Heⱱel)’, ‘Abel/(Heⱱel)’.

Key: N=noun NMS=nominative,masculine,singular