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SR GNT Mat 12:33 Ἤ (Aʸ) ‘either make the tree’ Strongs=22280 Lemma=ē
Word role=conjunction
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Blind_and_Dumb_Demoniac_and_Following_Discourse

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Other uses (41) of identical word form Ἤ (C-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἤ’ (C-···) has 2 different glosses: ‘either’, ‘or’.

Yhn (Jhn) 4:27 ‘said what you are seeking or why you are speaking with’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 4:27 word 26

OET-LV: 27 And after this the apprentices/followers of _him came, and they _were _marvelling that he _was _speaking with a_woman, however no _one said: What are _you _seeking? Or: Why are _you _speaking with her? (JHN_4:27)

OET-RV: 27 After this, his followers arrived back, and they were astounded that he was speaking with a woman. However no one dared ask her, “What are you after?” Or to ask him, “Why are you talking with her?” (JHN 4:27)

Mark 11:28 ‘authority these things you are doing or who to you gave’ SR GNT Mark 11:28 word 10

OET-LV: 28 And they _were _saying to _him: By what authority are _you _doing these things? Or who gave the this authority to _you, in _order _that you _may _be _doing these things? (MRK_11:28)

OET-RV: 28 They asked Yeshua, “Do you have any authority to do what you did? If so, who gave it to you?” (MRK 11:28)

Mat 7:4 ‘or how you will_be saying to the’ SR GNT Mat 7:4 word 1

OET-LV: 4 Or how you _will _be _saying to _the brother of _you: Allow that I _may _throw _out the speck from the eye of _you, and see, the beam is in the eye of _you? (MAT_7:4)

OET-RV: 4 How could you say to them, ‘Let me get the speck out of your eye,’ when the lump is still in your eye? (MAT 7:4)

Mat 7:9 ‘or which is of’ SR GNT Mat 7:9 word 1

OET-LV: 9 Or which a_person is of you _all, whom the son of _him will _be _requesting a_loaf, not will _be _handing _out a_stone to _him? (MAT_7:9)

OET-RV: 9 If you have a child that asks for something to eat, which of you would give them a stone? (MAT 7:9)

Mat 7:10 ‘or also a fish will_be requesting’ SR GNT Mat 7:10 word 1

OET-LV: 10 Or also will _be _requesting a_fish, not will _be _handing _out a_serpent to _him? (MAT_7:10)

OET-RV: 10 Or if the child asked for some fish, who would give them a snake? (MAT 7:10)

Mat 12:5 ‘or not you_all read in’ SR GNT Mat 12:5 word 1

OET-LV: 5 Or you _all_ not _read in the law that on _the days _of _rest the priests in the temple are _profaning the day _of _rest, and they _are innocent? (MAT_12:5)

OET-RV: 5 Or haven’t you understood that when the priests work in the temple on the rest day, it’s against the law and yet they’re innocent? (MAT 12:5)

Mat 12:29 ‘or how is able anyone’ SR GNT Mat 12:29 word 1

OET-LV: 29 Or how is_ anyone _able to _come _in into the house of _the strong man and to _snatch the goods of _him, if not first he _may _bind the strong man? And then he _will _be _thoroughly _plundering the household of _him. (MAT_12:29)

OET-RV: 29 “How can someone go into the house of a strong man and steal his goods if they don’t tie him up first? Only then can his home be plundered. (MAT 12:29)

Mat 16:26 ‘soul of him may_be lost or what will_be giving a person’ SR GNT Mat 16:26 word 16

OET-LV: 26 For/Because what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _being _benefitted, if he _may _gain the whole world, but the soul of _him may _be _lost? Or what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _giving as_an_exchange for _the soul of _him? (MAT_16:26)

OET-RV: 26 What help would it be to a person if they gain everything in the world, and yet lose their soul? Or put another way, what could a person give in exchange for their soul? (MAT 16:26)

Mat 20:15 ‘or not it is permitting for me’ SR GNT Mat 20:15 word 1

OET-LV: 15 Or not is _it _permitting for _me, what I _am _willing to _do with the mine? Or is the eye of _you evil, because I am good? (MAT_20:15)

OET-RV: 15 Or aren’t I permitted to do what I want with my own money? Or is your eye evil just because I am generous?’ (MAT 20:15)

Mat 20:15 ‘to do with mine or the eye of you’ SR GNT Mat 20:15 word 14

OET-LV: 15 Or not is _it _permitting for _me, what I _am _willing to _do with the mine? Or is the eye of _you evil, because I am good? (MAT_20:15)

OET-RV: 15 Or aren’t I permitted to do what I want with my own money? Or is your eye evil just because I am generous?’ (MAT 20:15)

Mat 26:53 ‘or you are supposing that not’ SR GNT Mat 26:53 word 1

OET-LV: 53 Or are _you _supposing that I _am_ not _being _able now to _appeal the father of _me, and he _will _be _standing_ more twelve of _legions of _messengers _before before _me? (MAT_26:53)

OET-RV: 53 Don’t you realise that I could just ask my father and he would place over a dozen divisions of heavenly soldiers here in front of me, (MAT 26:53)

Luke 13:4 ‘or those eighteen on’ SR GNT Luke 13:4 word 1

OET-LV: 4 Or those the eighteen on whom the tower in the Silōam fell and killed_ them _off, are _you _all _supposing that they became debtors beyond all the people which dwelling _in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim)? (LUK_13:4)

OET-RV: 4 What about those eighteen who were killed when the Siloam tower collapsed on them? Do you think they had bigger debts than all the people living in Yerushalem? (LUK 13:4)

Luke 14:31 ‘or what king going’ SR GNT Luke 14:31 word 1

OET-LV: 31 Or what king going to _encounter with _another king in war, not having _sat _down first will _be _counselling whether he _is powerful with ten thousands to _meet with _the one with twenty thousands coming against him? (LUK_14:31)

OET-RV: 31 Or what king would go off to war against another king, if he hadn’t previously sat down with his generals to figure out if their ten thousand soldiers are powerful enough to battle the other king bringing twenty thousand against him? (LUK 14:31)

Luke 15:8 ‘or what woman drachmas’ SR GNT Luke 15:8 word 1

OET-LV: 8 Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she _may _lose one drachma, is_ not _lighting a_lamp, and is _sweeping the house, and is _seeking carefully, until of _which she _may _find it? (LUK_15:8)

OET-RV: 8 “Or what woman who had ten silver coins and lost one, wouldn’t light a lamp and sweep the house and search thoroughly until she found it? (LUK 15:8)

Acts 24:20 ‘or themselves these let say’ SR GNT Acts 24:20 word 1

OET-LV: 20 Or let_ these themselves _say, what they _found wrong, having _stood of _me before the council, (ACT_24:20)

OET-RV: 20 Even these ones here now should explain what their council found me guilty of, (ACT 24:20)

Rom 2:4 ‘or of the riches of the’ SR GNT Rom 2:4 word 1

OET-LV: 4 Or of _the riches of _the kindness of _him, and of _the forbearance, and of _the patience you _are _despising, not _knowing that the kindness of_ the _god, to repentance you is _leading? (ROM_2:4)

OET-RV: 4 Or maybe you’re taking advantage of God’s kindness and patience without realising that his kindness was meant to lead you towards repentance? (ROM 2:4)

Rom 3:29 ‘or of Youdaiōns is_he the god’ SR GNT Rom 3:29 word 1

OET-LV: 29 Or of _Youdaiōns is _he the god only? Not also of _pagans? Yes, also of _pagans, (ROM_3:29)

OET-RV: 29 Or is God only god of the Jews? Isn’t he also the god of others? Yes, he is the god of others. (ROM 3:29)

Rom 6:3 ‘or you_all are not_knowing that as_many_as’ SR GNT Rom 6:3 word 2

OET-LV: 3 Or you _all _are _not _knowing, that as _many _as we _were _immersed into chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous, into the death of _him we _were _immersed? (ROM_6:3)

OET-RV: 3 Or didn’t you all realise that when we were immersed into Messiah Yeshua, we were immersed into his death? (ROM 6:3)

Rom 7:1 ‘or you_all are not_knowing brothers to knowing’ SR GNT Rom 7:1 word 1

OET-LV: 7 Or you _all _are _not _knowing, brothers (for to _knowing the_law I _am _speaking), that the law is _mastering over _the person for as _long _as the_time he _is _living? (ROM_7:1)

OET-RV: 7 Brothers and sisters, you know the Law well that I’m talking about, so surely you realise that the law acts as a person’s master for as long as they live? (ROM 7:1)

Rom 9:21 ‘or not is having authority’ SR GNT Rom 9:21 word 1

OET-LV: 21 Or not is _having authority the potter over _the clay, out _of the same lump to _make one on _one _hand to honour vessel, on _the _other _hand one to dishonour? (ROM_9:21)

OET-RV: 21 Doesn’t the potter have the right to split the lump of clay and make a beautiful bowl out of half and a chamber pot out of the other half? (ROM 9:21)

Rom 11:2 ‘of him whom he foreknew or not you_all have known in’ SR GNT Rom 11:2 word 10

OET-LV: 2 Not pushed _away the god the people of _him, whom he _foreknew. Or not you _all _have _known in Aʸlias/(ʼĒliy^yāh) what is _saying the scripture, how he _is _pleading the with_god against the Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl)? (ROM_11:2)

OET-RV: 2 No, God didn’t push away his people that he knew before he chose them. Or don’t you know what Eliyah wrote when he pleaded with God to deal with Yisrael: (ROM 11:2)

Rom 11:35 ‘or who previously_given to him’ SR GNT Rom 11:35 word 1

OET-LV: 35 Or who previously _given to _him, and will _be _being _repaid to _him? (ROM_11:35)

OET-RV: 35 ‘Who has been able to give him something,
⇔ so that God now needs to repay them?’ (ROM 11:35)

Rom 14:10 ‘the brother of you or also you why’ SR GNT Rom 14:10 word 8

OET-LV: 10 But you why are _judging the brother of _you? Or also you why are _scorning the brother of _you? For/Because all we _will _be _standing _before before _the tribunal of_ the _god. (ROM_14:10)

OET-RV: 10 So why are you judging fellow believers and why are you also scorning them, because all of us will end up standing in God’s court of judgement. (ROM 14:10)

1 Cor 6:2 ‘or not you_all have known that’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:2 word 1

OET-LV: 2 Or not you _all _have _known that the holy ones the world will _be _judging? And if by you _all is _being _judged the world, unworthy you _all _are of_the_courts of_the_least? (CO1_6:2)

OET-RV: 2 Don’t you realise that in the future, believers will judge the world, and if the world’s going to be judged by all of you, surely you’re competent enough now to judge smaller cases? (CO1 6:2)

1 Cor 6:9 ‘or not you_all have known that’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:9 word 1

OET-LV: 9 Or not you _all _have _known that the_unrighteous of_god the_kingdom not will _be _inheriting? Not be _being _deceived, neither the_sexually _immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomisers, (CO1_6:9)

OET-RV: 9 Or don’t you all know that those who disobey God won’t inherit his kingdom? Don’t let yourselves be deceived: those who are sexually immoral or idolaters, or adulterers or male prostitutes or homosexuals, (CO1 6:9)

1 Cor 6:16 ‘or not you_all have known that’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:16 word 1

OET-LV: 16 Or not you _all _have _known that the one being _joined _together to _the one, prostitute body is? For/Because will _be, he _is _saying: the two into one flesh. (CO1_6:16)

OET-RV: 16 Or don’t you know that having sex with a prostitute is a joining together, because it says: ‘The two will become one body.’ (CO1 6:16)

1 Cor 6:19 ‘or not you_all have known that’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:19 word 1

OET-LV: 19 Or not you _all _have _known that the body of _you _all, a_temple of _the in you _all holy spirit is, of _whom you _all _are _having from god? And not you _all _are of _yourselves, (CO1_6:19)

OET-RV: 19 Surely you all know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit who comes from God and lives within you. No, you don’t actually own yourselves (CO1 6:19)

1 Cor 7:16 ‘the husband you will_be saving or how you have known husband’ SR GNT 1 Cor 7:16 word 11

OET-LV: 16 For/Because how you _have _known, wife, whether the husband you _will _be _saving? Or how you _have _known, husband, if the wife you _will _be _saving? (CO1_7:16)

OET-RV: 16 You see, how do you know, woman, whether you will cause your husband to be saved? Or how do you know, man, whether you will cause your wife to be saved? (CO1 7:16)

1 Cor 9:6 ‘or only I and’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:6 word 1

OET-LV: 6 Or only I and Barnabas, not are _having right not to _be _working? (CO1_9:6)

OET-RV: 6 Or it is only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves? (CO1 9:6)

1 Cor 9:7 ‘of it not is eating or who is shepherding a flock’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:7 word 18

OET-LV: 7 Who is _soldiering to_^his_own support once? Who is _planting a_vineyard, and the fruit of _it not is _eating? Or who is _shepherding a_flock, and of the milk of _the flock, not is _eating? (CO1_9:7)

OET-RV: 7 What soldier has to pay his own expenses? Who plants a vineyard and isn’t allowed to eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and isn’t allowed to drink the milk they produce? (CO1 9:7)

1 Cor 9:10 ‘or because_of us certainly’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:10 word 1

OET-LV: 10 Or because _of us certainly he _is _speaking? Because _of for us it _was _written that ought in hope the one plowing to _be _plowing, and the one threshing in hope which to _be _partaking. (CO1_9:10)

OET-RV: 10 Isn’t he saying that on our behalf? Yes, it was written for our sake saying that anyone who’s ploughing a field should expect to be paid, and anyone who threshes the grain should expect a share of the harvest. (CO1 9:10)

1 Cor 10:22 ‘or we are making_jealous the master’ SR GNT 1 Cor 10:22 word 1

OET-LV: 22 Or we _are _making _jealous the master? Not stronger than he we _are? (CO1_10:22)

OET-RV: 22 Or are we trying to make Yahweh envious? No, he’s more powerful than us. (CO1 10:22)

1 Cor 11:22 ‘to_be eating and to_be drinking or of the assembly of god’ SR GNT 1 Cor 11:22 word 11

OET-LV: 22 For/Because not houses not you _all _are _having in which to _be _eating and to _be _drinking? Or of _the assembly of_ the _god you _all _are _despising, and you _all _are _disgracing the ones not having? What I _may _say to _you _all? I _may _praise you _all in this? Not I _am _praising. (CO1_11:22)

OET-RV: 22 For eating and drinking, don’t you all have your own houses to do that in? Why are you showing contempt for God’s assembly and humiliating those left with nothing? What should I say about that? Should I praise you for that? No, I can’t! (CO1 11:22)

1 Cor 14:36 ‘either from you_all the’ SR GNT 1 Cor 14:36 word 1

OET-LV: 36 Either from you _all the message of_ the _god came _out, or to you _all only it _arrived? (CO1_14:36)

OET-RV: 36 Did God’s message originate from you all, or did it only come to you? (CO1 14:36)

2 Cor 1:17 ‘consequently to lightness I resorted or what I am counselling according_to’ SR GNT 2 Cor 1:17 word 11

OET-LV: 17 Therefore this wishing, surely _not consequently to_ the _lightness I _resorted? Or what I _am _counselling, according _to flesh I _am _counselling, in _order _that may _be with me the Yes, yes, and which No, no? (CO2_1:17)

OET-RV: 17 Was I just being light-headed when I hoped for that? Or what was I thinking? Was I just thinking in worldly ways where yes, I might, and at the same time, no, I might not? (CO2 1:17)

2 Cor 3:1 ‘again ourselves to_be commending or not we are needing as’ SR GNT 2 Cor 3:1 word 8

OET-LV: 3 We _are _beginning again ourselves to _be _commending? Or not we _are _needing, as some, of _commendatory letters to you _all or from you _all? (CO2_3:1)

OET-RV: 3 Oh, are we beginning to pat ourselves on the back again? Don’t we need written references for you all, or from you all, like some others do? (CO2 3:1)

2 Cor 11:7 ‘or a sin I did myself’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:7 word 1

OET-LV: 7 Or a_sin I _did myself humbling, in _order _that you _all may _be _exalted, because undeservedly the of_ the _god good _message I _good _message _preached to _you _all? (CO2_11:7)

OET-RV: 7 Or did I disobey God when I humbled myself so that all of you might be elevated, because I shared the good message with you all without any personal gain? (CO2 11:7)

2 Cor 13:5 ‘faith yourselves be approving or not you_all are recognizing yourselves’ SR GNT 2 Cor 13:5 word 10

OET-LV: 5 Yourselves be _testing whether you _all _are in the faith, yourselves be _approving. Or not you _all _are _recognizing yourselves, that chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) in you _all, if surely _not unqualified you _all _are? (CO2_13:5)

OET-RV: 5 Test yourselves to check if you’re living in the faith—you yourselves can decide that. Or can’t you all recognise whether or not Messiah Yeshua is living in you? Surely you’re not that unqualified? (CO2 13:5)

Gal 1:10 ‘I am persuading or god or I am seeking to people to_be bringing_pleasure’ SR GNT Gal 1:10 word 9

OET-LV: 10 For/Because now I _am _persuading people or the god? Or I _am _seeking to _be _bringing _pleasure to _people? If I _was_ still _bringing _pleasure to _people, I _was not wishfully a_slave of_chosen _one /messiah. (GAL_1:10)

OET-RV: 10 Am I trying to please and persuade people or God? If I was still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be worthy to be one of the messiah’s slaves. (GAL 1:10)

1 Th 2:19 ‘or the crown of boasting or not are even you_all’ SR GNT 1 Th 2:19 word 11

OET-LV: 19 For/Because who is of _us the_hope or the_joy or the_crown of _boasting? Or not are even you _all, before the master of _us, Yaʸsous, at the of _him coming? (TH1_2:19)

OET-RV: 19 Because who is it that encourages and pleases us and that we can brag about? Won’t it be you all there in front of our master Yeshua when he returns, (TH1 2:19)

Yac (Jam) 4:5 ‘or you_all are supposing that emptily’ SR GNT Yac (Jam) 4:5 word 1

OET-LV: 5 Or you _all _are _supposing that emptily the scripture is _saying: With envy is _longing _for the spirit which is made _to _dwell in us? (JAM_4:5)

OET-RV: 5 Do you think that the scripture means nothing when it says, ‘God’s spirit jealously longs to live in us’? (JAM 4:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ē’ have 5 different glosses: ‘either’, ‘or’, ‘rather’, ‘than’, ‘¬or/than’.

Greek words (4) other than Ἤ (C-···) with a gloss related to ‘either’

MARK 13:35 ἤ (aʸ) C-··· ‘of the house is coming either evening or midnight’ SR GNT Mark 13:35 word 12

OET-LV: 35 Therefore be _watching, because/for you _all _have_ not _known when the master of _the house is _coming, either evening, or midnight, or of_the_crockcrow, or in _the _morning, (MRK_13:35)

OET-RV: 35 So you all watch and stay alert, because you don’t know when the master of the house might return—perhaps one evening or at midnight, or at dawn or maybe mid-morning. (MRK 13:35)

MAT 6:24 ἤ (aʸ) C-··· ‘for two masters to_be serving either for the one’ SR GNT Mat 6:24 word 7

OET-LV: 24 No _one is _able to _be _serving for _two masters, because/for either he _will _be _hating the one and he _will _be _loving the other, or he _will _be _upholding of_the_one and he _will _be _despising of _the other. You _all _are_ not _being _able to _be _serving for_god and money. (MAT_6:24)

OET-RV: 24 “No one can serve two masters, because they’ll either hate one and like the other one, or else will support one and despise the other. So you people can’t serve both God and money. (MAT 6:24)

LUKE 16:13 ἤ (aʸ) C-··· ‘for two masters to_be serving either for the one’ SR GNT Luke 16:13 word 8

OET-LV: 13 Not _one house _servant is _able to _be _serving for _two masters, because/for either he _will _be _hating the one, and the other he _will _be _loving, or of_the_one he _will _be _upholding, and of _the other he _will _be _despising. You _all _are_ not _being _able to _be _serving for_god and money. (LUK_16:13)

OET-RV: 13 “No household servant can serve two masters, because either they’ll hate the one and love the other, or they’ll support the one and despise the other.” (LUK 16:13)

1 COR 14:6 ἤ (aʸ) C-··· ‘not to you_all I may speak either in revelation or’ SR GNT 1 Cor 14:6 word 18

OET-LV: 6 But now brothers, if I _may _come to you _all with _tongues speaking, what you _all I _will _be _benefiting, if not to _you _all I _may _speak, either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching? (CO1_14:6)

OET-RV: 6 But now brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in other languages, how can I be of benefit to you all? Only if I share a revelation with you all, or some knowledge, or a prophecy or teaching. (CO1 14:6)

Key: C=conjunction