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Koine Greek wordlink #8112

SR GNT Mat 13:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) ‘the birds and devoured them’ Strongs=27190 Lemma=katesthiō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Seaside_Parables_and_Miracle

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Other uses (3) of identical word form κατέφαγεν (V-IAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κατέφαγεν’ (V-IAA3··S) has 2 different glosses: ‘it devoured’, ‘devoured’.

Mark 4:4 ‘the birds and devoured it’ SR GNT Mark 4:4 word 23

OET-LV: 4 And it _became at the time to _be _sowing, some indeed fell along the road, and the birds came and devoured it. (MRK_4:4)

OET-RV: 4 As he spread it, some landed on the path, and the birds came and fed on it. (MRK 4:4)

Luke 8:5 ‘birds of the sky devoured it’ SR GNT Luke 8:5 word 29

OET-LV: 5 The one sowing came _out which to _sow the seed of _him. And at the time him to _be _sowing, some indeed fell along the road, and it _was _trampled and the birds of _the sky devoured it. (LUK_8:5)

OET-RV: 5 “One day a farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he spread the seeds, some of them fell along the path where they got trampled on, and the birds ate them. (LUK 8:5)

Rev 20:9 ‘the sky and it devoured them’ SR GNT Rev 20:9 word 33

OET-LV: 9 And they _went _up on the breadth of _the earth, and surrounded the camp of _the holy ones, and the city which having _been _loved. But came _down fire out _of the sky and it _devoured them. (REV_20:9)

OET-RV: 9 They’ll cover the whole world and surround the camp of the believers and the beloved city, but fire will come down from heaven and burn them up. (REV 20:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katesthiō’ have 13 different glosses: ‘are devouring’, ‘having devoured’, ‘is devouring’, ‘is devouring you_all’, ‘will_be consuming’, ‘I devoured’, ‘he may devour it’, ‘it devoured’, ‘you are devouring’, ‘you_all are devouring’, ‘devour’, ‘devoured’, ‘devouring’.

Greek words (2) other than κατέφαγεν (V-IAA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘devoured’

LUKE 15:30 καταφαγών (katafagōn) V-PAA·NMS ‘son of you this having devoured of you the living’ SR GNT Luke 15:30 word 11

OET-LV: 30 But when the this son of _you, he _came which having _devoured the living of _you with prostitutes, you _sacrificed the grain _fed calf for _him. (LUK_15:30)

OET-RV: 30 Yet when this son of yours comes home after using up your money living with prostitutes, then you slaughter the fattened calf for him!’ (LUK 15:30)

REV 10:10 κατέφαγον (katefagon) V-IAA1··S ‘of the messenger and I devoured it and it was’ SR GNT Rev 10:10 word 12

OET-LV: 10 And I _took the little _scroll out _of the hand of _the messenger, and I _devoured it, and it _was in the mouth of _me as honey sweet, and when I _ate it, was _made _bitter the stomach of _me. (REV_10:10)

OET-RV: 10 So I took that little scroll from the messenger’s hand and ate it, and it tasted sweet like honey, but my stomach hurt afterwards (REV 10:10)

Key: V=verb