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Koine Greek wordlink #37726

SR GNT Luke 1:26 μηνί (maʸni) ‘in and the month the sixth was sent_out’ Strongs=33760 Lemma=mēn
Word role=noun case=dative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=-5 TimeSeries=The_Annuciation

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Only use of identical word form μηνί (N-DMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μηνί’ (N-DMS) is always and only glossed as ‘month’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘mēn’ have 4 different glosses: ‘for months’, ‘month’, ‘months’, ‘surely’.

Greek words (3) other than μηνί (N-DMS) with a gloss related to ‘month’

LUKE 1:36 μήν (maʸn) N-NMS ‘of her and this month sixth is to her’ SR GNT Luke 1:36 word 19

OET-LV: 36 And see, Elisabet, the relative of _you, she also has _conceived a_son in the_old _age of _her, and this is sixth month to _her who was being _called barren. (LUK_1:36)

OET-RV: 36 Also, your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age—the one who was called barren is now six months pregnant (LUK 1:36)

REV 9:15 μῆνα (maʸna) N-AMS ‘and day and month and year in_order_that’ SR GNT Rev 9:15 word 17

OET-LV: 15 And were _untied/released the four messengers, which having _been _prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, in _order _that they _may _kill _off the third of_ the _mankind. (REV_9:15)

OET-RV: 15 So the four messengers who had been prepared for this exact time were released to kill a third of humankind. (REV 9:15)

REV 22:2 μῆνα (maʸna) N-AMS ‘fruits twelve according_to month each to_be giving_back the’ SR GNT Rev 22:2 word 21

OET-LV: 2 In the_middle of _the road of _it and of _the river, from _here and from _there, the_tree of _life producing twelve fruits, according _to month each to _be _giving _back the fruit of _it, and the leaves of _the tree are for the_healing of _the nations. (REV_22:2)

OET-RV: 2 In the middle of its path and in the middle of the river reaching from one side to the other was the tree of life that produces twelve fruits—a different one each month—and the leaves of the tree are for healing the nations (REV 22:2)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular DMS=dative,masculine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular