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Koine Greek wordlink #141539

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SR GNT Heb 2:16 ἐπιλαμβάνεται (epilambanetai) ‘but of the seed of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) he is taking_hold’ Strongs=19490 Lemma=epilambanō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=middle person=3rd number=singular
Year=64 AD Refers to Word #141439

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἐπιλαμβάνεται (V-IPM3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπιλαμβάνεται’ (V-IPM3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘he is taking_hold’.

Heb 2:16 ‘for assuredly of the messengers he is taking_hold but of the seed of Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām)’ SR GNT Heb 2:16 word 5

OET-LV: 16 For/Because not assuredly of_the_messengers he _is _taking _hold, but of_the_seed of _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) he _is _taking _hold. (HEB_2:16)

OET-RV: 16 You can be certain that it’s not God’s messengers that he’s helped, but rather Abraham’s descendants. (HEB 2:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epilambanō’ have 10 different glosses: ‘having taken_hold’, ‘having taken_hold of_him’, ‘having taken_hold_of’, ‘to catch’, ‘he is taking_hold’, ‘of having taken_hold’, ‘they may catch’, ‘they may take_hold’, ‘take_hold’, ‘took_hold’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐπιλαμβάνεται (V-IPM3··S) with a gloss related to ‘taking_hold’

HEB 4:14 κρατῶμεν (kratōmen) V-SPA1··P Lemma=krateō ‘the son of god we may_be taking_hold of our confession’ SR GNT Heb 4:14 word 15

OET-LV: 14 Therefore having a_chief _priest great, having _passed _through the heavens, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), the son of_ the _god, we _may _be _taking _hold of _our confession. (HEB_4:14)

OET-RV: 14 So then, having Yeshua the son of God who came from and returned to the heavens as our high priest, we need to hold firmly to what we say we believe, (HEB 4:14)

Key: V=verb