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Koine Greek wordlink #43625

SR GNT Luke 6:48 ἔσκαψεν (eskapsen) ‘building a house who dug and deepened and’ Strongs=46260 Lemma=skaptō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount

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Only use of identical word form ἔσκαψεν (V-IAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔσκαψεν’ (V-IAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘dug’.

Luke 6:48 ‘building a house who dug and deepened and’ SR GNT Luke 6:48 word 7

OET-LV: 48 he _is similar to_a_man building a_house, who dug and deepened and laid a_foundation on the rock, and having _become flood the flood dashed _against to_ the that _house, and it _was_ not _able to _shake it, because _of the thing to _have _built it well. (LUK_6:48)

OET-RV: 48 That person is like a man building a house. He dug and drilled and laid a foundation on the rock, and then when there was a flood that dashed against that house, it didn’t shake it because it was built well. (LUK 6:48)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘skaptō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘to_be digging’, ‘I may dig’, ‘dug’.

Greek words (3) other than ἔσκαψεν (V-IAA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘dug’

MARK 12:1 Ὤρυξεν (Ōruxen) V-IAA3··S Lemma=orussō ‘put_around a fence and dug a trough and built’ SR GNT Mark 12:1 word 19

OET-LV:  And he _began to _be _speaking to _them in parables: A_man planted a_vineyard and put_ a_fence _around, and dug a_trough, and built a_tower, and rented _out it to_the_tenant _farmers, and travelled. (MRK_12:1)

OET-RV:  Then he started telling them some parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, dug out a wine-pressing pit, and built a security tower. Then he rented it out and went off travelling. (MRK 12:1)

MAT 21:33 ὤρυξεν (ōruxen) V-IAA3··S Lemma=orussō ‘to it put_around and dug in it a wine-press’ SR GNT Mat 21:33 word 16

OET-LV: 33 Hear another parable: a_man was a_home _owner, who planted a_vineyard, and put_ a_fence _around to _it: and dug a_wine-press in it, and built a_tower, and rented_ it _out to _tenant _farmers, and travelled. (MAT_21:33)

OET-RV: 33 “Listen to another parable: A landowner planted a vineyard and fenced it, and he carved a wine-pressing pit into it and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to tenant farmers and moved away. (MAT 21:33)

MAT 25:18 ὤρυξεν (ōruxen) V-IAA3··S Lemma=orussō ‘one having received having gone_away dug the ground and hid’ SR GNT Mat 25:18 word 8

OET-LV: 18 But the one having _received the one, having _gone _away, dug the_ground and hid the silver of _the master of _him. (MAT_25:18)

OET-RV: 18 But the one who received the one bag, he went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s silver. (MAT 25:18)

Key: V=verb