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Koine Greek wordlink #66629

SR GNT Yhn 5:39 ἐκεῖναι (ekeinai) ‘eternal to_be having and those are the ones testifying’ Strongs=15650 Lemma=ekeinos
Word role=pronoun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Bethesda_pool_healing

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Only use of identical word form ἐκεῖναι (R-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐκεῖναι’ (R-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘those’.

Yhn (Jhn) 5:39 ‘eternal to_be having and those are the ones testifying’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 5:39 word 16

OET-LV: 39 You _all _are _searching the scriptures, because you _all are _supposing to _be _having eternal life in them, and those are the ones testifying concerning me, (JHN_5:39)

OET-RV: 39 You look in the Jewish scriptures because you suppose that they’ll lead you to eternal life. Those very scriptures testify about me coming, (JHN 5:39)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ekeinos’ have 14 different glosses: ‘for those’, ‘of that’, ‘of that one’, ‘of that way’, ‘of those’, ‘of those things’, ‘to that one’, ‘to those’, ‘that’, ‘that one’, ‘that sin’, ‘that was’, ‘that woman’, ‘those’.

Key: R=pronoun NFP=nominative,feminine,plural