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Koine Greek wordlink #12587

SR GNT Mat 18:28 ἔπνιγεν (epnigen) ‘and having apprehended him he was strangling him saying give_back if’ Strongs=41550 Lemma=pnigō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=32 AD Refers to Word #12571

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Only use of identical word form ἔπνιγεν (V-IIA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔπνιγεν’ (V-IIA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘he was strangling him’.

Mat 18:28 ‘and having apprehended him he was strangling him saying give_back if’ SR GNT Mat 18:28 word 20

OET-LV: 28 But the that slave having _come _out, found one of _the fellow-slaves of _him, who was _owing a_hundred daʸnarion_coins to _him, and having _apprehended him, he _was _strangling him saying: Give _back if anything you _are _owing. (MAT_18:28)

OET-RV: 28 “But when the slave got outside, he found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him a few thousand. He grabbed him and was strangling him with his hands saying, ‘Give back what you owe!’ (MAT 18:28)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pnigō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘he was strangling him’, ‘they were_being drowned’.

Key: V=verb