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Koine Greek wordlink #53860

SR GNT Luke 16:4 μετασταθῶ (metastathō) ‘I may do in_order_that whenever I may_be removed from the management’ Strongs=31790 Lemma=methistaō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=passive person=1st number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #53836

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Only use of identical word form μετασταθῶ (V-SAP1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μετασταθῶ’ (V-SAP1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I may_be removed’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘methistaō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘having removed’, ‘I may_be removed’, ‘redirected’, ‘redirected us’.

Greek words (2) other than μετασταθῶ (V-SAP1··S) with a gloss related to ‘removed’

ACTs 7:4 μετῴκισεν (metōkisen) V-IAA3··S Lemma=metoikizō ‘the father of him he removed him into land’ SR GNT Acts 7:4 word 21

OET-LV: 4 Then having _come _out from the_land of_ones_from_Ⱪaldia/(Kasdiy), he _dwelt in Ⱪarran. And _from _there after the time the father of _him to _die _off, he _removed him into the this land, in which you _all are_ now _dwelling. (ACT_7:4)

OET-RV: 4 So he left Chaldea and moved to Haran, and then after his father died, he moved again to this land where we now live. (ACT 7:4)

ACTs 13:22 μεταστήσας (metastaʸsas) V-PAA·NMS ‘and having removed him he raised Dawid/(Dāvid)’ SR GNT Acts 13:22 word 2

OET-LV: 22 And having _removed him, he _raised the Dawid/(Dāvid) to _them for a_king, to _whom also he _spoke having _testified: I _found Dawid the son of_ the _Yessai/(Yishay): a_man according _to the heart of _me, who will _be _doing all the wills of _me. (ACT_13:22)

OET-RV: 22 After Saul was removed, God chose David to be their king—the man of whom he said, ‘I found David the son of Yishay (Jesse), a man who wants to obey me and do everything I ask.’ (ACT 13:22)

Key: V=verb