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Koine Greek wordlink #12155

← καταφρονήσητε ⌂ → Mat 18 ║ ═

SR GNT Mat 18:10 καταφρονήσητε (katafronaʸsaʸte) ‘be seeing not you_all may despise of one of little ones these’ Strongs=27060 Lemma=katafroneō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=32 AD Refers to Word #11934

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Only use of identical word form καταφρονήσητε (V-SAA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘καταφρονήσητε’ (V-SAA2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘you_all may despise’.

Mat 18:10 ‘be seeing not you_all may despise of one of little ones these’ SR GNT Mat 18:10 word 3

OET-LV: 10 Be _seeing you _all _may_ not _despise of _one of_ the these _little ones, because/for I _am _saying to _you _all that the messengers of _them in the_heavens, through everything are _seeing the face of _the father of _me, who is in the_heavens. (MAT_18:10)

OET-RV: 10 “Make sure that you all don’t despise any of these small ones, because I’m telling you all that their messengers in the heavens are always in front of my father who is in the heavens. (MAT 18:10)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katafroneō’ have 8 different glosses: ‘having despised’, ‘let_be despising’, ‘he will_be despising’, ‘them let_be despising’, ‘you are despising’, ‘you_all are despising’, ‘you_all may despise’, ‘despising’.

Key: V=verb