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Koine Greek wordlink #54228

SR GNT Luke 15:30 καταφαγών (katafagōn) ‘son of you this having devoured of you the living’ Strongs=27190 Lemma=katesthiō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=aorist voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
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Only use of identical word form καταφαγών (V-PAA.NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταφαγών’ (V-PAA.NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘having devoured’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katesthiō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘are devouring’, ‘having devoured’, ‘is devouring’, ‘is devouring you_all’, ‘will_be consuming’, ‘I devoured’, ‘he may devour it’, ‘it devoured’, ‘you_all are devouring’, ‘devour’, ‘devoured’, ‘devouring’.

Greek words (5) other than καταφαγών (V-PAA.NMS) with a gloss related to ‘devoured’

MARK 4:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3..S ‘the birds and devoured it’ SR GNT Mark 4:4 word 23

MAT 13:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3..S ‘the birds and devoured them’ SR GNT Mat 13:4 word 20

LUKE 8:5 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3..S ‘birds of the sky devoured it’ SR GNT Luke 8:5 word 29

REV 10:10 κατέφαγον (katefagon) V-IAA1..S ‘of the messenger and I devoured it and it was’ SR GNT Rev 10:10 word 13

REV 20:9 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3..S ‘the sky and it devoured them’ SR GNT Rev 20:9 word 33

Key: V=verb IAA1..S=indicative,aorist,active,1st person singular IAA3..S=indicative,aorist,active,3rd person singular PAA.NMS=participle,aorist,active,nominative,masculine,singular