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Koine Greek wordlink #37369

SR GNT Luke 1:7 στεῖρα (steira) ‘as_much_as Elisabet was barren and both having advanced’ Strongs=47230 Lemma=steiros
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=-5 TimeSeries=John's_birth_predicted

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Only use of identical word form στεῖρα (S-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘στεῖρα’ (S-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘barren’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘steiros’ have 2 different glosses: ‘barren’, ‘barren woman’.

Greek words (3) other than στεῖρα (S-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘barren’

LUKE 1:36 Στείρᾳ (Steira) S-DFS ‘to her who was being called barren’ SR GNT Luke 1:36 word 25

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)

LUKE 23:29 στεῖραι (steirai) S-NFP ‘they will_be saying blessed are the barren and wombs that’ SR GNT Luke 23:29 word 13

OET-LV: 29 Because see, days are _coming in which they _will _be _saying: Blessed are the barren, and wombs that not bore, and breasts that not nursed. (LUK_23:29)

OET-RV: 29 because the time is coming when they’ll say, ‘Blessed are the childless couples and the women who never bore or raised a child.’ (LUK 23:29)

GAL 4:27 στεῖρα (steira) S-VFS ‘it has_been written for be gladdened barren woman you not bearing’ SR GNT Gal 4:27 word 4

OET-LV: 27 For/Because it _has _been _written: Be _gladdened, barren woman, you not bearing, break _forth and shout, you not labouring _in _birth, because many are the children of _the desolate, more than of _the woman having the husband. (GAL_4:27)

OET-RV: 27 because it’s been written in the scriptures:
⇔ ‘Be glad barren woman,
⇔ you who have never borne a child.
⇔ Be bold and shout,
⇔ you who have never been in labour,
⇔ because the lonely woman now has many children,
⇔ even more than the woman with a husband.’ (GAL 4:27)

Key: S=substantive adjective DFS=dative,feminine,singular NFP=nominative,feminine,plural NFS=nominative,feminine,singular VFS=vocative,feminine,singular