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Koine Greek wordlink #47211

SR GNT Luke 9:39 ἀφροῦ (afrou) ‘it is convulsing him with foam and with difficultly is going_away’ Strongs=8760 Lemma=afros^*
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=singular
Year=32 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἀφροῦ (N-GMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀφροῦ’ (N-GMS) is always and only glossed as ‘foam’.

Luke 9:39 ‘it is convulsing him with foam and with difficultly is going_away’ SR GNT Luke 9:39 word 18

OET-LV: 39 And see, a_spirit is _taking him, and suddenly he _is _crying _out and it _is _convulsing him with foam, and is _going _away from him, with _difficultly, bruising him. (LUK_9:39)

OET-RV: 39 A spirit takes control of him and suddenly he cries out and it makes him convulse and foam at the mouth, and only leaves him after a long time when he’s bruised and battered. (LUK 9:39)

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

Key: N=noun GMS=genitive,masculine,singular