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Koine Greek wordlink #44560

SR GNT Luke 7:38 βρέχειν (breⱪein) ‘with the tears she began to_be wetting the feet of him’ Strongs=10260 Lemma=breχō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Anointed_by_a_Sinner_Woman Refers to Word #44520

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Only use of identical word form βρέχειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βρέχειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be wetting’.

Luke 7:38 ‘with the tears she began to_be wetting the feet of him’ SR GNT Luke 7:38 word 15

OET-LV: 38 and having _stood behind by the feet of _him weeping, she _began to _be _wetting the feet of _him with _the, tears, and she _was _wiping _off them with _the hairs of _the head of _her, and was _kissing the feet of _him, and was _anointing them with _the ointment. (LUK_7:38)

OET-RV: 38 She stood weeping behind Yeshua’s feet, wetting his feet with her tears. Then she used her hair to wipe off the tears and kissed his feet and rubbed the lotion into them. (LUK 7:38)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘breχō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘is raining’, ‘may_be raining’, ‘to rain’, ‘to_be wetting’, ‘it rained’, ‘rained’, ‘wet’.

Key: V=verb