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Koine Greek wordlink #143168

SR GNT Heb 7:23 κωλύεσθαι (kōluesthai) ‘because_of that by death to_be_being forbidden to_be continuing_with’ Strongs=29670 Lemma=kōluō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=passive
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form κωλύεσθαι (V-NPP····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κωλύεσθαι’ (V-NPP····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be_being forbidden’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kōluō’ have 14 different glosses: ‘be forbidding’, ‘be forbidding him’, ‘having_been forbidden’, ‘is forbidding’, ‘to forbid’, ‘to_be forbidding’, ‘to_be_being forbidden’, ‘I was forbidden’, ‘he is forbidding’, ‘we were forbidding’, ‘you may forbid’, ‘you_all forbade’, ‘forbade’, ‘forbidding’.

Greek words (2) other than κωλύεσθαι (V-NPP····) with a gloss related to ‘forbidden’

ACTs 16:6 κωλυθέντες (kōluthentes) V-PAP·NMP ‘and the Galatikos region having_been forbidden by the holy’ SR GNT Acts 16:6 word 10

OET-LV: 6 And they _passed _through the Frugia and the_Galatikos region, having _been _forbidden by the holy spirit to _speak the message in the Asia, (ACT_16:6)

OET-RV: 6 From there, they travelled through Phrygia and the Galatia region, after the holy spirit prevented them from proclaiming the message in Asia Minor. (ACT 16:6)

ROM 1:13 ἐκωλύθην (ekōluthaʸn) V-IAP1··S ‘to you_all and I was forbidden until the time presently’ SR GNT Rom 1:13 word 15

OET-LV: 13 Not and I _am _wanting you _all to _be _not _knowing, brothers, that often I _purposed to _come to you _all, and I _was _forbidden until the time presently, in _order _that some fruit I _may _have also among you _all, as even among the other pagans. (ROM_1:13)

OET-RV: 13 Brothers and sisters, I don’t want you to be unaware that I had planned several times to come to you but I was vetoed until recently so that I’d also have a harvest among you similar to those among the other non-Jews. (ROM 1:13)

Key: V=verb