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Koine Greek wordlink #60682

SR GNT Luke 23:29 κοιλίαι (koiliai) ‘the barren and wombs that not bore’ Strongs=28360 Lemma=koilia
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form κοιλίαι (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κοιλίαι’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘wombs’.

Luke 23:29 ‘the barren and wombs that not bore’ SR GNT Luke 23:29 word 16

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)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘koilia’ have 5 different glosses: ‘the womb’, ‘belly’, ‘stomach’, ‘womb’, ‘wombs’.

Key: N=noun NFP=nominative,feminine,plural