Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #15165

SR GNT Mat 22:4 ταῦροι (tauroi) ‘of me I have prepared the bulls of me and the’ Strongs=50220 Lemma=tauros
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=33 AD

Note: With the help of a companion website, these word pages enable you to click through all the way back to photographs of the original manuscripts that the Open English Translation New Testament is translated from. If you go to the Statistical Restoration Greek page (by clicking on the SR Bible reference above), from there you can click on the original manuscript numbers (e.g., 𝔓1, 01, 02, etc.) in the Witness column there, to see their transcription of the original Greek page. From there, you can click on the 🔍 magnifying glass icon to view a photograph of the actual leaf of the codex. This is all part of the commitment of the Open English Translation team to be transparent about all levels of the Bible translation process right back to the original manuscripts.

Only use of identical word form ταῦροι (N-NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ταῦροι’ (N-NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘bulls’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘tauros’ have 2 different glosses: ‘of bulls’, ‘bulls’.

Greek words (3) other than ταῦροι (N-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘bulls’

ACTs 14:13 ταύρους (taurous) N-AMP ‘before the city bulls and garlands to’ SR GNT Acts 14:13 word 18

OET-LV: 13 And the the_priest of_ the _Zeus, which being before the city, having _brought bulls and garlands to the gates, he _was _wanting to _be _sacrificing with the crowds. (ACT_14:13)

OET-RV: 13 And the priest of Zeus wanted to sacrifice with the crowds, so he brought bulls and garlands of flowers to the city gates from the temple on the path to the city. (ACT 14:13)

HEB 9:13 ταύρων (taurōn) N-GMP ‘blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer’ SR GNT Heb 9:13 word 8

OET-LV: 13 For/Because if the blood of _goats, and bulls, and the_ashes of_a_heifer, sprinkling the ones having _been _defiled, is _sanctifying them for the of _the flesh purification, (HEB_9:13)

OET-RV: 13 Because if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled people with the ashes of a young cow could make them holy by physical purification, (HEB 9:13)

HEB 10:4 ταύρων (taurōn) N-GMP ‘impossible it_is for for the blood of bulls and of goats to_be taking_away’ SR GNT Heb 10:4 word 4

OET-LV: 4 For/Because impossible it _is for_the_blood of _goats and of _bulls to _be _taking _away sins. (HEB_10:4)

OET-RV: 4 because it’s simply not possible for the blood of goats and bulls to take away sins. (HEB 10:4)

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural