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Koine Greek wordlink #16137

SR GNT Mat 23:15 διπλότερον (diploteron) ‘him a son of geenna twice_more than you_all’ Strongs=13615 Lemma=diploteron^*
Word role=adverb
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form διπλότερον (D-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διπλότερον’ (D-···) is always and only glossed as ‘twice_more than’.

Mat 23:15 ‘him a son of geenna twice_more than you_all’ SR GNT Mat 23:15 word 26

OET-LV: 15 Woe to _you _all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites. Because you _all _are _going _around the sea and the dry land to _make one convert, and whenever he _may _become, you _all _are _making him a_son of _geenna twice _more than you _all. (MAT_23:15)

OET-RV: 15 “You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’d travel all the way around the world to make one convert, and then you’d make him twice the son of hell that you are yourselves. (MAT 23:15)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘diploteron’ in the Greek originals.

Key: D=adverb