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Koine Greek wordlink #53235

SR GNT Luke 15:8 ἅπτει (haptei) ‘drachma one not is lighting a lamp and is sweeping’ Strongs=6810 Lemma=haptō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #53223

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

The word form ‘ἅπτει’ (V-IPA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘is lighting’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘haptō’ have 15 different glosses: ‘be touching’, ‘having lit’, ‘having touched’, ‘is lighting’, ‘is touching’, ‘may touch’, ‘to_be touching’, ‘I may touch’, ‘he may touch’, ‘he may_be touching’, ‘he touched’, ‘she touched’, ‘they may touch’, ‘you may touch’, ‘touched’.

Greek words (1) other than ἅπτει (V-IPA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘lighting’

MAT 5:15 καίουσιν (kaiousin) V-IPA3··P Lemma=kaiō ‘and_not they are lighting a lamp and are putting’ SR GNT Mat 5:15 word 2

OET-LV: 15 And _not they _are _lighting a_lamp and are _putting it under the a_basket, but on the lampstand, and it _is _shining for _all the ones in the house. (MAT_5:15)

OET-RV: 15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket—you put it on a lampstand and it lightens up the house. (MAT 5:15)

Key: V=verb