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Koine Greek wordlink #141499

SR GNT Heb 2:14 μετέσχεν (metesⱪen) ‘also he likewise partook of the same things in_order_that’ Strongs=33480 Lemma=meteχō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form μετέσχεν (V-IAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μετέσχεν’ (V-IAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘partook’.

Heb 2:14 ‘also he likewise partook of the same things in_order_that’ SR GNT Heb 2:14 word 14

OET-LV: 14 Therefore because the little _children has _sharing of _blood and of _flesh, also he likewise partook of _the same things, in _order _that through his death, he _may _nullify the one the power holding of_ the _death, this is the devil, (HEB_2:14)

OET-RV: 14 So because the ‘little children’ are all made of flesh and blood, he also became a man to be just like them, so that through his death, he could nullify the power of death (which comes from the devil) (HEB 2:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘meteχō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘am partaking’, ‘are partaking’, ‘has partaken’, ‘to_be partaking’, ‘partaking’, ‘partook’.

Key: V=verb