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Koine Greek wordlink #147026

SR GNT Yac 2:6 ἕλκουσιν (helkousin) ‘over you_all and they are dragging you_all into courts’ Strongs=16700 Lemma=helkō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἕλκουσιν (V-IPA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἕλκουσιν’ (V-IPA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘are dragging’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘helkō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘are dragging’, ‘they were dragging’.

Greek words (6) other than ἕλκουσιν (V-IPA3··P) with a gloss related to ‘dragging’

YHN 21:8 σύροντες (surontes) V-PPA·NMP Lemma=surō ‘from cubits two_hundred dragging the net with the’ SR GNT Yhn 21:8 word 22

OET-LV: 8 And the other apprentices/followers in _the little _boat came, because/for they _were not far from the land, but from about two _hundred cubits dragging the net with _the fishes. (JHN_21:8)

OET-RV: 8 The other apprentices followed in the little boat dragging the net behind them because they were only about 100m out from the shore. (JHN 21:8)

ACTs 8:3 σύρων (surōn) V-PPA·NMS Lemma=surō ‘the houses entering_in dragging both men and’ SR GNT Acts 8:3 word 12

OET-LV: 3 But Saulos was _ravaging the assembly, by entering _in the houses, dragging both men and women, he _was _giving _over them to prison. (ACT_8:3)

OET-RV: 3 As for Saul, he started on destroying the assembly by entering people’s homes and dragging both men and women out and then off to prison. (ACT 8:3)

ACTs 14:19 ἔσυρον (esuron) V-IIA3··P Lemma=surō ‘and having stoned Paulos they were dragging him outside the city’ SR GNT Acts 14:19 word 46

OET-LV: 19 But Youdaiōns came _over from Antioⱪeia and Ikonion, and having _persuaded the crowds, and having _stoned the Paulos, they _were _dragging him outside the city, thinking him to _have _died. (ACT_14:19)

OET-RV: 19 But some strict Jews came over from Pisidian Antioch and Iconium and were able to persuade the crowds. They threw rocks at Paul to kill him and dragged his body outside the city gates thinking that he was dead. (ACT 14:19)

ACTs 17:6 ἔσυρον (esuron) V-IIA3··P Lemma=surō ‘having found and them they were dragging Yasōn and some’ SR GNT Acts 17:6 word 5

OET-LV: 6 And not having _found them, they _were _dragging Yasōn and some brothers before the city _council shouting, that The ones having _upset the inhabited _world, these are _coming here also, (ACT_17:6)

OET-RV: 6 But when they realised that Paul and Silas weren’t there, they dragged Jason and some other believers off to the city leaders, shouting, “Those two men who’ve gone around upsetting the whole world have now come here as well (ACT 17:6)

ACTs 21:30 εἷλκον (heilkon) V-IIA3··P ‘and having taken_hold of Paulos they were dragging him outside the’ SR GNT Acts 21:30 word 15

OET-LV: 30 And the whole city was _stirred, and a_rushing _together of _the people became, and having _taken _hold of_ the _Paulos, they _were _dragging him outside the temple, and immediately the doors were _shut. (ACT_21:30)

OET-RV: 30 So now the whole city was in an uproar, and the crowds rushed in, grabbed Paul, and dragged him out of the temple and hurriedly closed the temple gates. (ACT 21:30)

REV 12:4 σύρει (surei) V-IPA3··S Lemma=surō ‘the tail of him is dragging the third of the’ SR GNT Rev 12:4 word 5

OET-LV: 4 and the tail of _him is _dragging the third of _the stars of _the sky, and he _throw them to the earth. And the dragon has _stood before the woman which going to _bear, in _order _that whenever she _may _bear, the child of _her he _may _devour it. (REV_12:4)

OET-RV: 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and hurled them down to earth, then he stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the child was delivered, he could devour it. (REV 12:4)

Key: V=verb