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Koine Greek wordlink #64663

SR GNT Yhn 4:5 Συχάρ (Suⱪar) ‘a city of Samareia/(Shomrōn) being called Suⱪar near the property’ Strongs=49650 Lemma=suχar^*
Word role=proper noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Location=Sychar Year=30 AD TimeSeries=The_Samaritan_Woman

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Only use of identical word form Συχάρ (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Συχάρ’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘Suⱪar’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Συχάρ’ (N-AFS) was always and only glossed as ‘Sychar’).

Yhn (Jhn) 4:5 ‘a city of Samareia/(Shomrōn) being called Suⱪar near the property’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 4:5 word 8

OET-LV: 5 Therefore he _is _coming to a_city of_ the _Samareia being _called Suⱪar, near the property which Yakōb/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) gave to_ the _Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf), the son of _him, (JHN_4:5)

OET-RV: 5 By choosing that route, they came to a town in Shomron called Sukar, which was near the place that the patriarch Yosef had inherited from his father Yacob, (JHN 4:5)

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

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular