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Koine Greek wordlink #42469

SR GNT Luke 6:1 ψώχοντες (psōⱪontes) ‘were eating the heads_of_grain rubbing them in their hands’ Strongs=55970 Lemma=psōχō^*
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Corn_on_the_Sabbath Refers to Word #42459

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Only use of identical word form ψώχοντες (V-PPA·NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ψώχοντες’ (V-PPA·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘rubbing them’.

Luke 6:1 ‘were eating the heads_of_grain rubbing them in their hands’ SR GNT Luke 6:1 word 29

OET-LV:  And it _became on the_day _of _rest him to _be _passing _through through grainfields, and the apprentices/followers of _him were _plucking, and were _eating the heads _of _grain, rubbing them in _their hands. (LUK_6:1)

OET-RV:  One Rest Day, Yeshua was walking through some fields of grain and his followers were plucking the heads of grain and rubbing them apart in their hands, then chewing the grains. (LUK 6:1)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘psōχō’ in the Greek originals.

Key: V=verb