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Koine Greek wordlink #45584

SR GNT Luke 8:29 ἠλαύνετο (aʸlauneto) ‘tearing the bonds he was_being driven by the demon’ Strongs=16430 Lemma=elaunō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=passive person=3rd number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Gadarene_Demoniacs Refers to Word #45564

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Only use of identical word form ἠλαύνετο (V-IIP3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἠλαύνετο’ (V-IIP3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘he was_being driven’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘elaunō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘being driven’, ‘having rowed’, ‘to_be rowing’, ‘he was_being driven’.

Greek words (2) other than ἠλαύνετο (V-IIP3··S) with a gloss related to ‘driven’

YAC 3:4 ἐλαυνόμενα (elaunomena) V-PPP·NNP ‘by winds hard being driven is_being directed by the least’ SR GNT Yac 3:4 word 13

OET-LV: 4 Behold, also the ships, so _great being, and by winds hard being _driven, is _being _directed by the_least rudder, wherever the impulse of _the one straightening is _wishing. (JAM_3:4)

OET-RV: 4 Similarly, even huge ships that are being driven on by strong winds are controlled by a small rudder and can be steered wherever the captain desires. (JAM 3:4)

2 PET 2:17 ἐλαυνόμεναι (elaunomenai) V-PPP·NFP ‘mists by storm being driven for whom darkness of darkness’ SR GNT 2 Pet 2:17 word 10

OET-LV: 17 These are waterless springs, and mists being _driven by storm, for _whom the darkness of_ the _darkness has _been _kept. (PE2_2:17)

OET-RV: 17 These men are like waterless fountains and like mists driven by storms, and the gloomy darkness is reserved for them (PE2 2:17)

Key: V=verb