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Koine Greek wordlink #17195

SR GNT Mat 24:31 ἄκρων (akrōn) ‘four winds from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities’ Strongs=2060 Lemma=akron
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=neuter number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἄκρων (N-GNP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἄκρων’ (N-GNP) is always and only glossed as ‘the extremities’.

Mat 24:31 ‘the extremities of the heavens to the extremities of them’ SR GNT Mat 24:31 word 27

OET-LV: 31 And he _will _be _sending _out the messengers of _him with a_ great _trumpet cry, and they _will _be _gathering _together the chosen of _him from the four winds, from the_extremities of_the_heavens to the_extremities of _them. (MAT_24:31)

OET-RV: 31 There’ll be a trumpet blast as he sends out his messengers to bring together all his chosen people from every part of the earth—from one pole to the other. (MAT 24:31)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘akron’ have 2 different glosses: ‘the extremities’, ‘extremity’.

Key: N=noun GNP=genitive,neuter,plural