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Koine Greek wordlink #55567

SR GNT Luke 18:15 βρέφη (brefaʸ) ‘to him also the babies in_order_that against them he may_be touching’ Strongs=10250 Lemma=brefos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=neuter number=plural
Year=33 AD Referred to from Word #55570

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Other uses (1) of identical word form βρέφη (N-ANP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βρέφη’ (N-ANP) is always and only glossed as ‘babies’.

Acts 7:19 ‘fathers to_be making the babies abandoned of them in_order’ SR GNT Acts 7:19 word 15

OET-LV: 19 This man, having _taken _advantage of _the race of _us, mistreated the fathers which to _be _making the babies of _them abandoned, in _order that to_ not _be _being _kept _alive. (ACT_7:19)

OET-RV: 19 He took advantage of us Jews and mistreated our ancestors, even forcing them apart from their own babies so they wouldn’t live. (ACT 7:19)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘brefos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a baby’, ‘babies’, ‘baby’.

Greek words (1) other than βρέφη (N-ANP) with a gloss related to ‘babies’

1 PET 2:2 βρέφη (brefaʸ) N-NNP ‘like newborn babies the logical unadulterated’ SR GNT 1 Pet 2:2 word 3

OET-LV: 2 like newborn babies long the logical unadulterated milk, in _order _that by it you _all _may _be _grown for salvation, (PE1_2:2)

OET-RV: 2 Just like newborn babies long for pure milk so they’ll grow, you should cultivate a thirst for what’ll help you grow as people who are rescued, (PE1 2:2)

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural NNP=nominative,neuter,plural