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Koine Greek wordlink #145564

SR GNT Heb 12:4 μέχρις (meⱪris) ‘not_yet unto blood you_all stood_against against’ Strongs=33600 Lemma=meχri
Word role=preposition
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form μέχρις (P-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μέχρις’ (P-···) is always and only glossed as ‘unto’.

Heb 12:4 ‘not_yet unto blood you_all stood_against against’ SR GNT Heb 12:4 word 3

OET-LV: 4 Not _yet unto blood you _all _stood _against, against the sin struggling, (HEB_12:4)

OET-RV: 4 So far, you all haven’t had to resist to the point of sweating or shedding blood in the struggle against sin. (HEB 12:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘meχri’ have 2 different glosses: ‘until’, ‘unto’.

Key: P=preposition