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Koine Greek wordlink #52441

SR GNT Luke 14:7 ἐπέχων (epeⱪōn) ‘the ones having_been invited a parable noticing how the best_places’ Strongs=19070 Lemma=epeχō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #52357 Person=Jesus

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Only use of identical word form ἐπέχων (V-PPA·NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπέχων’ (V-PPA·NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘noticing’.

Luke 14:7 ‘the ones having_been invited a parable noticing how the best_places’ SR GNT Luke 14:7 word 8

OET-LV: 7 And he _was _speaking a_parable to the ones having _been _invited, noticing how they _were _choosing the best _places, saying to them, (LUK_14:7)

OET-RV: 7 Then he told a parable to all the invited guests after he’d noticed them choosing the best places around the table, telling them, (LUK 14:7)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epeχō’ have 5 different glosses: ‘be holding_on’, ‘was holding_on’, ‘held_on’, ‘holding_up’, ‘noticing’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐπέχων (V-PPA·NMS) with a gloss related to ‘noticing’

HEB 2:6 ἐπισκέπτῃ (episkeptaʸ) V-IPM2··S Lemma=episkeptomai ‘the son of man that you are noticing him’ SR GNT Heb 2:6 word 17

OET-LV: 6 But testified somewhere someone saying: What is mankind, that you _are _remembering of _him, or the_son of _man, that you _are _noticing him? (HEB_2:6)

OET-RV: 6 but someone testified somewhere saying:
⇔ ‘What is humankind that you think about him,
⇔ or humanity’s son that you notice him? (HEB 2:6)

Key: V=verb