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Koine Greek wordlink #11896

← σκανδαλίσωμεν ⌂ → Mat 17 ║ ═

SR GNT Mat 17:27 σκανδαλίσωμεν (skandalisōmen) ‘in_order_that but not we may offend them having_been gone to’ Strongs=46240 Lemma=skandalizō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=1st number=plural
Year=32 AD Refers to Word #11886 Person=Jesus Refers to Word #11811

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Only use of identical word form σκανδαλίσωμεν (V-SAA1··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘σκανδαλίσωμεν’ (V-SAA1··P) is always and only glossed as ‘we may offend’.

Mat 17:27 ‘in_order_that but not we may offend them having_been gone to’ SR GNT Mat 17:27 word 4

OET-LV: 27 But in _order _that we _may_ not _offend them, having _been _gone to sea, throw a_fish _hook and take _up the first fish having _gone _up, and having _opened _up the mouth of _it, you _will _be _finding a_stater, having _taken that, give to _them for me and you. (MAT_17:27)

OET-RV: 27 “but so that we don’t offend them, go down to the lake and throw in a line. Pull out the first fish that you hook, and when you open its mouth, you’ll find a coin that’ll be enough to pay the tax for both of us.” (MAT 17:27)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘skandalizō’ have 16 different glosses: ‘is offending’, ‘is stumbling’, ‘is_being stumbled’, ‘may stumble’, ‘may_be offended’, ‘may_be stumbling’, ‘were offended’, ‘will_be_being stumbled’, ‘I may stumble’, ‘he is_being stumbled’, ‘he may stumble’, ‘they are_being stumbled’, ‘they were_being offended’, ‘we may offend’, ‘you_all may_be stumbled’, ‘you_all will_be_being stumbled’.

Key: V=verb