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Koine Greek wordlink #7785

SR GNT Mat 12:40 νύκτας (nuktas) ‘days and three nights thus will_be the’ Strongs=35710 Lemma=nux
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Blind_and_Dumb_Demoniac_and_Following_Discourse

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Other uses (3) of identical word form νύκτας (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘νύκτας’ (N-AFP) has 2 different glosses: ‘in the nights’, ‘nights’.

Mat 4:2 ‘days forty and nights forty later he hungered’ SR GNT Mat 4:2 word 7

OET-LV: 2 And having _fasted forty days and forty nights, later he _hungered. (MAT_4:2)

OET-RV: 2 As he’d been fasting for forty days (and nights), he was getting hungry, (MAT 4:2)

Mat 12:40 ‘days and three nights’ SR GNT Mat 12:40 word 32

OET-LV: 40 For/Because as Yōnas was in the belly of _the huge _fish three days and three nights, thus the son of_ the _man will _be three days and three nights in the heart of _the earth. (MAT_12:40)

OET-RV: 40 Because just like Yonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, in the same way humanity’s child will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (MAT 12:40)

Luke 21:37 ‘teaching the but in the nights coming_out he was lodging on’ SR GNT Luke 21:37 word 12

OET-LV: 37 And he _was teaching in the temple in _the days, but the in_the_nights coming _out, he _was _lodging on the mountain which being _called of _Olives. (LUK_21:37)

OET-RV: 37 Then Yeshua was teaching in the temple during the day, but he’d leave in the evening and go and stay on the Mount of Olives, (LUK 21:37)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘nux’ have 8 different glosses: ‘the night’, ‘by night’, ‘in the nights’, ‘of the night’, ‘of night’, ‘on night’, ‘night’, ‘nights’.

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural