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Koine Greek wordlink #142912

SR GNT Heb 7:7 ἔλαττον (elatton) ‘from all controversy the lessor by the better’ Strongs=16400 Lemma=elattōn
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἔλαττον (S-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔλαττον’ (S-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘lessor’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘elattōn’ have 2 different glosses: ‘lessor’, ‘lessor than’.

Greek words (3) other than ἔλαττον (S-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘lessor’

YHN 2:10 ἐλάσσω (elassō) A-AMS Lemma=elassōn ‘whenever they may_be being_drunk the lessor you have kept the’ SR GNT Yhn 2:10 word 17

OET-LV: 10 and he _is _saying to _him: Every person is _presenting first the good wine, and the lessor whenever they _may _be _being _drunk, you have _kept the good wine until now. (JHN_2:10)

OET-RV: 10 and exclaimed, “Most people supply the best wine at the beginning of the reception, and the cheaper stuff when people are a bit tipsy. But you’ve kept the best wine until last!” (JHN 2:10)

ROM 9:12 ἐλάσσονι (elassoni) S-DMS Lemma=elassōn ‘greater will_be serving for the lessor’ SR GNT Rom 9:12 word 16

OET-LV: 12 not of works, but of the one calling, it _was _said to _her, that The greater will _be _serving for _the lessor. (ROM_9:12)

OET-RV: 12 (not by actions but by God’s calling), she was told, ‘The older child will serve the younger one.’ (ROM 9:12)

1 TIM 5:9 ἔλαττον (elatton) S-ANS ‘a widow let_be_being enrolled not lessor than years sixty having become’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:9 word 4

OET-LV: 9 ˓Let˒_ a_widow _be _being _enrolled having _become not lessor than sixty years, the_wife of _one husband, (TI1_5:9)

OET-RV: 9 The assembly should enrol a widow if she’s at least sixty years old and was the wife of a single husband. (TI1 5:9)

Key: A=adjective S=substantive adjective AMS=accusative,masculine,singular ANS=accusative,neuter,singular DMS=dative,masculine,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular