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Koine Greek wordlink #15909

SR GNT Mat 23:4 δεσμεύουσιν (desmeuousin) ‘they are binding and burdens heavy’ Strongs=11950 Lemma=desmeuō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #15877 Refers to Word #15880

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Only use of identical word form δεσμεύουσιν (V-IPA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘δεσμεύουσιν’ (V-IPA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they are binding’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘desmeuō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘they are binding’, ‘binding’.

Greek words (2) other than δεσμεύουσιν (V-IPA3··P) with a gloss related to ‘binding’

ACTs 21:11 δήσουσιν (daʸsousin) V-IFA3··P Lemma=deō ‘belt this thus will_be binding in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) the’ SR GNT Acts 21:11 word 41

OET-LV: 11 and having _come to us, and having _taken _up the belt of_ the _Paulos, having _bound of _himself the feet and the hands, he _said: The the holy spirit is _saying these things: The man of _whom is the this belt, thus the Youdaiōns in Hierousalaʸm will _be _binding, and they _will _be _giving _over him into the_hands of_the_pagans. (ACT_21:11)

OET-RV: 11 and when he arrived, he picked up Paul’s belt and tied it around his own feet and hands, telling them that the holy spirit had told him that this is how the owner of the belt would be treated by the Jewish leaders in Yerushalem before they would then hand him over to the non-Jews to be dealt with. (ACT 21:11)

ACTs 22:4 δεσμεύων (desmeuōn) V-PPA·NMS ‘I persecuted until death binding and giving_over to’ SR GNT Acts 22:4 word 10

OET-LV: 4 who I _persecuted this the way until death, binding and giving _over to prisons, both men and women, (ACT_22:4)

OET-RV: 4 I used to persecute the followers of ‘The Path’ even to death—tying up both men and women and handing them over to the prisons (ACT 22:4)

Key: V=verb