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Koine Greek wordlink #52672

SR GNT Luke 14:18 μιᾶς (mias) ‘and began of one all to_be excusing themselves the’ Strongs=15200 Lemma=heis
Word role=substantive adjective case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form μιᾶς (S-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μιᾶς’ (S-GFS) is always and only glossed as ‘one’.

Luke 14:18 ‘and began of one all to_be excusing themselves the’ SR GNT Luke 14:18 word 5

OET-LV: 18 And all began of one to _be _excusing themselves. The first said to _him: I _bought a_field and I _am _having necessity having _come _out to _see it, I _am _asking you be _holding me having _been _excused. (LUK_14:18)

OET-RV: 18 However they all started giving excuses. The first one said, ‘I bought a field and I need to go and inspect it. Please excuse me.’ (LUK 14:18)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘heis’ have 20 different glosses: ‘the first day’, ‘the one’, ‘by one’, ‘for one’, ‘for one party’, ‘from one’, ‘in one’, ‘of the one’, ‘of one’, ‘there_is one’, ‘to one’, ‘with one’, ‘first’, ‘first day’, ‘one’, ‘one final’, ‘one man’, ‘one thing’, ‘one transgression’, ‘one was’.

Key: S=substantive adjective GFS=genitive,feminine,singular