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Koine Greek wordlink #16157

SR GNT Mat 23:16 ὀμόσῃ (omosaʸ) ‘it is whoever but may swear by the gold’ Strongs=36600 Lemma=omnuō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form ὀμόσῃ (V-SAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὀμόσῃ’ (V-SAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘may swear’.

Mat 23:16 ‘you_all saying whoever may swear by the temple’ SR GNT Mat 23:16 word 10

OET-LV: 16 Woe to _you _all, blind guides, you _all saying: Whoever wishfully may _swear by the temple, it _is nothing, but whoever wishfully may _swear by the gold of _the temple is _owing. (MAT_23:16)

OET-RV: 16 “You blind guides will have a bad end. You say that if anyone makes an oath on the temple it’s worthless, but if they make an oath on the gold in the temple then they have to honour it. (MAT 23:16)

Mat 23:18 ‘and whoever may swear by the altar’ SR GNT Mat 23:18 word 5

OET-LV: 18 And: Whoever wishfully may _swear by the altar, it _is nothing, but whoever wishfully may _swear by the gift which on it is _owing. (MAT_23:18)

OET-RV: 18 And you say that anyone who makes an oath on the altar it’s worthless, but anyone who makes an oath on the gift on the altar has to honour it. (MAT 23:18)

Mat 23:18 ‘it is whoever but may swear by the gift’ SR GNT Mat 23:18 word 14

OET-LV: 18 And: Whoever wishfully may _swear by the altar, it _is nothing, but whoever wishfully may _swear by the gift which on it is _owing. (MAT_23:18)

OET-RV: 18 And you say that anyone who makes an oath on the altar it’s worthless, but anyone who makes an oath on the gift on the altar has to honour it. (MAT 23:18)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘omnuō’ have 11 different glosses: ‘are swearing’, ‘be swearing’, ‘having swore’, ‘is swearing’, ‘may swear’, ‘to swear’, ‘to_be swearing’, ‘I swore’, ‘he swore’, ‘you may swear’, ‘swore’.

Greek words (3) other than ὀμόσῃ (V-SAA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘swear’

MAT 5:34 ὀμόσαι (omosai) V-NAA···· ‘am saying to you_all not to swear actually neither by’ SR GNT Mat 5:34 word 6

OET-LV: 34 But I am _saying to _you _all not to_ actually _swear, neither by the heaven, because it _is the_throne of_ the _god, (MAT_5:34)

OET-RV: 34 But I’m telling you not to make oaths in the first place—don’t swear by heaven because it’s God’s throne, (MAT 5:34)

MAT 5:36 ὀμόσῃς (omosaʸs) V-SAA2··S ‘the head of you you may swear because not you are being_able’ SR GNT Mat 5:36 word 7

OET-LV: 36 nor may _you _swear by the head of _you, because you _are_ not _being _able to _make one hair white. or black. (MAT_5:36)

OET-RV: 36 And don’t swear by your own strength, because you can’t even make one strand of hair grow a different colour. (MAT 5:36)

HEB 6:13 ὀμόσαι (omosai) V-NAA···· ‘no_one he was having greater to swear he swore by himself’ SR GNT Heb 6:13 word 12

OET-LV: 13 For/Because the to _Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) having _promised the god, because by no _one he _was _having greater to _swear, he _swore by himself (HEB_6:13)

OET-RV: 13 When God made promises to Abraham, because he didn’t have anyone more powerful to take an oath in front of, he did it in his own name (HEB 6:13)

Key: V=verb