Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #64488

SR GNT Yhn 3:30 ἐλαττοῦσθαι (elattousthai) ‘to_be increasing me but to_be being_made_less’ Strongs=16420 Lemma=elattoō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=middle
Year=30 AD TimeSeries=John_the_Baptist_Witnesses

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Only use of identical word form ἐλαττοῦσθαι (V-NPM····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλαττοῦσθαι’ (V-NPM····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be being_made_less’.

Yhn (Jhn) 3:30 ‘to_be increasing me but to_be being_made_less’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 3:30 word 7

OET-LV: 30 That one it _is _fitting to _be _increasing, but me to _be _being _made _less. (JHN_3:30)

OET-RV: 30 It’s right and proper that he should increase and I should fade out.” (JHN 3:30)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘elattoō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘having_been made_less’, ‘to_be being_made_less’, ‘you made_less’.

Key: V=verb