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Koine Greek wordlink #51657

SR GNT Luke 13:7 καταργεῖ (katargei) ‘even the ground it is wasting’ Strongs=26730 Lemma=katargeō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #51639

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Only use of identical word form καταργεῖ (V-IPA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταργεῖ’ (V-IPA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘it is wasting’.

Luke 13:7 ‘even the ground it is wasting’ SR GNT Luke 13:7 word 35

OET-LV: 7 And he _said to the Vinedresser, see three, years from that I _am _coming seeking fruit on the this fig _tree, and I _am_ not _finding any. cut_ it _off, because/for_ why _reason it _is_ even _wasting the ground? (LUK_13:7)

OET-RV: 7 so he told his manager, ‘I’ve been coming and checking for fruit on this tree for three years, but there’s none. Chop it down because it’s not good use of the land.’ (LUK 13:7)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katargeō’ have 19 different glosses: ‘being nullified’, ‘being wasted’, ‘has_been nullified’, ‘having nullified’, ‘is_being nullified is’, ‘may_be nullified’, ‘to nullify’, ‘will_be nullifying’, ‘will_be_being nullified’, ‘I have nullified’, ‘he may nullify’, ‘it is wasting’, ‘it is_being nullified’, ‘it will_be_being nullified’, ‘she has_been released’, ‘they will_be_being nullified’, ‘we are nullifying’, ‘we were released’, ‘you_all were released’.

Key: V=verb