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Koine Greek wordlink #148124

SR GNT Yac 5:4 βοαί (boai) ‘is crying_out and the outcries of the ones having reaped into’ Strongs=9950 Lemma=boē^*
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form βοαί (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βοαί’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘outcries’.

Yac (Jam) 5:4 ‘is crying_out and the outcries of the ones having reaped into’ SR GNT Yac (Jam) 5:4 word 19

OET-LV: 4 Behold, the wage of _the workers, which having _harvested the fields of _you _all, which having _been _withheld by you _all, is _crying _out, and the outcries of _the ones having _reaped, into the ears of_the_master of _armies have _come _in. (JAM_5:4)

OET-RV: 4 The unpaid wages of the workers who harvested your fields are crying out and the desperate requests of those harvesters have been heard by army commander Yahweh. (JAM 5:4)

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

Key: N=noun NFP=nominative,feminine,plural