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Koine Greek wordlink #78394

SR GNT Yhn 18:3 φανῶν (fanōn) ‘is coming there with lanterns and torches and’ Strongs=53220 Lemma=fanos^*
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form φανῶν (N-GMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘φανῶν’ (N-GMP) is always and only glossed as ‘lanterns’.

Yhn (Jhn) 18:3 ‘is coming there with lanterns and torches and’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 18:3 word 19

OET-LV: 3 therefore the Youdas having _received the cohort, and attendants from the chief _priests and Farisaios_party, is _coming there with lanterns, and torches, and weapons. (JHN_18:3)

OET-RV: 3 Meanwhile Yudas had met with the soldiers and servants of the chief priests and the Pharisee party, and they all started coming into the garden with lanterns and flaming torches and weapons. (JHN 18:3)

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

Key: N=noun GMP=genitive,masculine,plural