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Koine Greek wordlink #55512

SR GNT Luke 18:13 ἐπᾶραι (eparai) ‘not_even his eyes to lift_up to the sky’ Strongs=18690 Lemma=epairō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #55503

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Only use of identical word form ἐπᾶραι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπᾶραι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to lift_up’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epairō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘having lifted_up’, ‘is lifting_up himself’, ‘to lift_up’, ‘he was lifted_up’, ‘they lifted_up’, ‘lift_up’, ‘lifted_up’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐπᾶραι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘lift_up’

YHN 4:35 ἐπάρατε (eparate) V-MAA2··P ‘see I am saying to you_all lift_up the eyes of you_all’ SR GNT Yhn 4:35 word 16

OET-LV: 35 Not you _all are _saying, that Still four _month it _is and the harvest is _coming? Behold, I _am _saying to _you _all, lift _up the eyes of _you _all and see the fields, because they _are already white toward harvest. (JHN_4:35)

OET-RV: 35 “Don’t you all have a saying about needing to wait four months for a harvest? But I’m telling you that you all should open your eyes and look at the fields, because they’re already lightening up as harvest time approaches. (JHN 4:35)

LUKE 21:28 ἐπάρατε (eparate) V-MAA2··P ‘to_be becoming straighten_up and lift_up the heads of you_all’ SR GNT Luke 21:28 word 9

OET-LV: 28 But these things beginning to _be _becoming, straighten _up and lift _up the heads of _you _all, because the redemption of _you _all is _nearing. (LUK_21:28)

OET-RV: 28 But when these things start to happen, stand straight and look upwards, because your new lives of freedom will be about to begin.” (LUK 21:28)

Key: V=verb