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Koine Greek wordlink #39269

SR GNT Luke 2:15 ποιμένες (poimenes) ‘the messengers the shepherds were saying to one_another’ Strongs=41660 Lemma=poimēn
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Referred to from Word #39273 Referred to from Word #39280 Referred to from Word #39290 Referred to from Word #39293 Referred to from Word #39294 Referred to from Word #39298 Referred to from Word #39313 Referred to from Word #39315 Referred to from Word #39322

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ποιμένες (N-NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ποιμένες’ (N-NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘shepherds’.

Luke 2:8 ‘and shepherds were in the’ SR GNT Luke 2:8 word 2

Luke 2:20 ‘and returned the shepherds glorifying and praising’ SR GNT Luke 2:20 word 5

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘poimēn’ have 5 different glosses: ‘a shepherd’, ‘the shepherd’, ‘Shepherd’, ‘shepherd’, ‘shepherds’.

Greek words (2) other than ποιμένες (N-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘shepherds’

LUKE 2:18 ποιμένων (poimenōn) N-GMP ‘having_been spoken by the shepherds to them’ SR GNT Luke 2:18 word 13

EPH 4:11 ποιμένας (poimenas) N-AMP ‘good_message_preachers the on_the_other_hand shepherds and teachers’ SR GNT Eph 4:11 word 16

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural