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Koine Greek wordlink #40045

SR GNT Luke 3:16 ἱμάντα (himanta) ‘worthy to untie the strap of the sandals of him’ Strongs=24380 Lemma=imas
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=26 AD TimeSeries=John_the_Baptist_Begins_Ministry

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ἱμάντα (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἱμάντα’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘strap’.

Yhn (Jhn) 1:27 ‘I may untie of him the strap of the sandal’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 1:27 word 23

OET-LV: 27 the one coming after me, of _whom I am not worthy that I _may _untie the strap of _the sandal of _him. (JHN_1:27)

OET-RV: 27 the one coming after me, and I’m not even good enough to untie his sandal straps!” (JHN 1:27)

Mark 1:7 ‘having bent_down to untie the strap of the sandals of him’ SR GNT Mark 1:7 word 29

OET-LV: 7 And he _was _proclaiming saying: The one mightier than me is _coming after me, of _whom I _am not worthy having _bent _down, to _untie the strap of _the sandals of _him. (MRK_1:7)

OET-RV: 7 And he also announced, “There’s a greater man coming soon—in fact I’m not even good enough to bend down and untie his sandals. (MRK 1:7)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘imas’ have 2 different glosses: ‘strap’, ‘straps’.

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular