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Koine Greek wordlink #80152

SR GNT Yhn 19:39 λίτρας (litras) ‘and aloe about litra_weights a hundred’ Strongs=30460 Lemma=litra
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form λίτρας (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λίτρας’ (N-AFP) is always and only glossed as ‘litra_weights’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘λίτρας’ (N-AFP) was always and only glossed as ‘pounds’).

Yhn (Jhn) 19:39 ‘and aloe about litra_weights a hundred’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 19:39 word 24

OET-LV: 39 And Nikodaʸmos also came, the one having _come to him at _the first by _night, bringing a_wrapping of _myrrh and aloe, about a_hundred pounds. (JHN_19:39)

OET-RV: 39 Nicodemus (the one who had first visited Yeshua at night) also came, bringing around 30kg of burial spices. (JHN 19:39)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘litra’ have 2 different glosses: ‘a litra_weight’, ‘litra_weights’.

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural