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Koine Greek wordlink #37325

SR GNT Luke 1:5 Ἀβιά (Abia) ‘Zaⱪarias of division of Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh) and wife to him’ Strongs=70 Lemma=abia
Word role=proper noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=singular
Person=Abijah3 Year=-5 TimeSeries=John's_birth_predicted

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Only use of identical word form Ἀβιά (N-GMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἀβιά’ (N-GMS) is always and only glossed as ‘of Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh)’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Ἀβιά’ (N-GMS) was always and only glossed as ‘of Abijah’).

Luke 1:5 ‘Zaⱪarias of division of Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh) and wife to him’ SR GNT Luke 1:5 word 16

OET-LV: 5 It _became in the days of _Haʸrōdaʸs king of_ the _Youdaia, a_ certain _priest by_the_name Zaⱪarias of division of _Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh), and wife to _him of the daughters of_Aʼarōn/(ʼAhₐron), and the name of _her, Elisabet. (LUK_1:5)

OET-RV: 5 It started with the priest Zekaryah (Zechariah) and his wife Elizabeth at the time when Herod was the king of Yudea. (Zekaryah was in the priestly division of Abiyah, and Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.) (LUK 1:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘abia’ have 2 different glosses: ‘of Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh)’, ‘Abia/(ʼAⱱīāh)’.

Key: N=noun GMS=genitive,masculine,singular