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Koine Greek wordlink #6043

SR GNT Mat 10:23 τελέσητε (telesaʸte) ‘to you_all by_no_means not you_all may finish the cities of the’ Strongs=50550 Lemma=teleō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=33 AD TimeSeries=3rd_Tour_of_Galilee Refers to Word #5650

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Other uses (1) of identical word form τελέσητε (V-SAA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τελέσητε’ (V-SAA2··P) has 2 different glosses: ‘may accomplish’, ‘you_all may finish’.

Gal 5:16 ‘of the flesh by_no_means not may accomplish’ SR GNT Gal 5:16 word 11

OET-LV: 16 But I _am _saying, be _walking by_the_spirit, and by _no _means may_ not _accomplish the_desire of_the_flesh. (GAL_5:16)

OET-RV: 16 I’ll tell you: allow yourselves to be led by the spirit, and then your earthly desires won’t triumph, (GAL 5:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘teleō’ have 19 different glosses: ‘has_been accomplished’, ‘is paying’, ‘is_being finished’, ‘may accomplish’, ‘may_be finished’, ‘to_be accomplished’, ‘was finished’, ‘will_be_being accomplished’, ‘I have finished’, ‘it has_been finished’, ‘it may_be accomplished’, ‘they may finish’, ‘they accomplished’, ‘they finished’, ‘you_all are accomplishing’, ‘you_all are finishing’, ‘you_all may finish’, ‘finished’, ‘finishing’.

Greek words (3) other than τελέσητε (V-SAA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘finish’

LUKE 14:29 ἐκτελέσαι (ektelesai) V-NAA···· Lemma=ekteleō ‘and not being_able to finish it all observing it may begin’ SR GNT Luke 14:29 word 12

OET-LV: 29 In _order _that lest having _laid a_foundation of _it and not being _able to _finish it, all which observing it may _begin to _be _mocking at _him (LUK_14:29)

OET-RV: 29 Otherwise you might lay the foundation and not be able to finish it. Then everyone watching might begin to mock (LUK 14:29)

LUKE 14:30 ἐκτελέσαι (ektelesai) V-NAA···· Lemma=ekteleō ‘and not was_able to finish it’ SR GNT Luke 14:30 word 12

OET-LV: 30 saying, that This the man began to _be _building, and was_ not _able to _finish it. (LUK_14:30)

OET-RV: 30 and say, ‘This person started a building project but wasn’t able to finish it.’ (LUK 14:30)

REV 11:7 τελέσωσιν (telesōsin) V-SAA3··P ‘and whenever they may finish the testimony of them’ SR GNT Rev 11:7 word 3

OET-LV: 7 And whenever they _may _finish the testimony of _them, the wild _animal which going _up out _of the abyss will _be _making with them war, and will _be _overcoming them, and will _be _killing _off them. (REV_11:7)

OET-RV: 7 When the two witnesses have finished speaking out, the creature that comes up from the deep, dark pit will attack them. It’ll overpower them and then kill them. (REV 11:7)

Key: V=verb