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Koine Greek wordlink #142323

SR GNT Heb 5:7 ἱκετηρίας (hiketaʸrias) ‘petitions both and supplications to the one being_able’ Strongs=24280 Lemma=iketēria^*
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἱκετηρίας (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἱκετηρίας’ (N-AFP) is always and only glossed as ‘supplications’.

Heb 5:7 ‘petitions both and supplications to the one being_able’ SR GNT Heb 5:7 word 11

OET-LV: 7 Who in the days of _the flesh of _him, petitions both and supplications, to the one being _able to _be _saving him from death, with clamour mighty and tears having _offered, and having _been _listened _to from the reverence. (HEB_5:7)

OET-RV: 7 During the time when Yeshua lived in a human body, he offered up prayers and petitions with a mighty clamour and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. (HEB 5:7)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘iketēria’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural