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Koine Greek wordlink #17677

SR GNT Mat 25:6 μέσης (mesaʸs) ‘in the middle but of the night a clamour’ Strongs=33190 Lemma=mesos
Word role=determiner/case-marker case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form μέσης (E-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μέσης’ (E-GFS) has 2 different glosses: ‘in the middle’, ‘middle’.

Acts 26:13 ‘day middle on the road’ SR GNT Acts 26:13 word 2

OET-LV: 13 middle day on the road king I _saw, from _heaven a_light above the brightness like of _the sun having _shone _around me, and the ones journeying with me. (ACT_26:13)

OET-RV: 13 that in the middle of the day, your majesty, I saw a bright light from the sky—even brighter than the sun—and it shone on me and my companions. (ACT 26:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘mesos’ have 7 different glosses: ‘the middle’, ‘the midst’, ‘your midst’, ‘in the middle’, ‘in the midst’, ‘middle’, ‘midst’.

Greek words (8) other than μέσης (E-GFS) with a gloss related to ‘middle’

YHN 8:3 μέσῳ (mesōi) S-DNS ‘having stood her in the middle’ SR GNT Yhn 8:3 word 22

OET-LV: 3  (JHN_8:3)

OET-RV: 3 ◘ (JHN 8:3)

YHN 8:9 μέσῳ (mesōi) S-DNS ‘the woman in the middle having stood’ SR GNT Yhn 8:9 word 36

OET-LV: 9  (JHN_8:9)

OET-RV: 9 ◘ (JHN 8:9)

YHN 19:18 μέσον (meson) S-ANS ‘on_this_side and on_that_side in the middle and Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa)’ SR GNT Yhn 19:18 word 13

OET-LV: 18 where they _executed _on _a _stake him, and with him two others, on _this _side and on _that _side, and the Yaʸsous in_the_middle. (JHN_19:18)

OET-RV: 18 where they secured him to a stake along with two others—one stake on each side and with Yeshua on the middle one. (JHN 19:18)

LUKE 23:45 μέσον (meson) S-ANS ‘curtain of the temple in the middle’ SR GNT Luke 23:45 word 17

OET-LV: 45 Of _the sun having _darkened, and the curtain of _the temple was _torn in_the_middle. (LUK_23:45)

OET-RV: 45 the sun went dark and the curtain inside the temple was torn in the middle. (LUK 23:45)

ACTs 1:18 μέσος (mesos) S-NMS ‘headlong having become he burst_open in the middle and was poured_out all’ SR GNT Acts 1:18 word 16

OET-LV: 18 (Therefore indeed this man acquired a_field out _of the_reward of_ the _unrighteousness, and having _become headlong, he _burst _open in_the_middle, and all the intestines of _him was _poured _out. (ACT_1:18)

OET-RV: 18 (Yudas had bought a field with the money he had received for his treachery, and when he had fallen down in that field, his stomach had burst open and his intestines had slid out on the ground. (ACT 1:18)

ACTs 27:27 μέσον (meson) S-ANS ‘the Adrias_Sea to the middle of the night were suspecting’ SR GNT Acts 27:27 word 13

OET-LV: 27 But when the_fourteenth night became, us being _carried _through in the Adrias _Sea, to the_middle of _the night, the sailors were _suspecting a_certain to _be _coming _near to _them land. (ACT_27:27)

OET-RV: 27 So it happened that in the middle of our fourteenth night of being blown across the Adriatic Sea, the sailors suspected that we were nearing land. (ACT 27:27)

REV 7:17 μέσον (meson) S-ANS ‘lamb who is among the middle of the throne will_be shepherding’ SR GNT Rev 7:17 word 6

OET-LV: 17 because the lamb who is among the_middle of _the throne will _be _shepherding them, and will _be _guiding them to of _life springs of _waters, and will _be _wiping _out the god every tear from the eyes of _them. (REV_7:17)

OET-RV: 17 because the lamb that’s there at the throne will shepherd them. The lamb will guide them to the springs of living water, and God will ensure that every tear is wiped away from their eyes.” SHOULD THIS BE IN POETIC FORMAT? (REV 7:17)

REV 22:2 μέσῳ (mesōi) S-DNS ‘in the middle of the road of it’ SR GNT Rev 22:2 word 2

OET-LV: 2 In the_middle of _the road of _it and of _the river, from _here and from _there, the_tree of _life producing twelve fruits, according _to month each to _be _giving _back the fruit of _it, and the leaves of _the tree are for the_healing of _the nations. (REV_22:2)

OET-RV: 2 In the middle of its path and in the middle of the river reaching from one side to the other was the tree of life that produces twelve fruits—a different one each month—and the leaves of the tree are for healing the nations (REV 22:2)

Key: E=determiner/case-marker S=substantive adjective ANS=accusative,neuter,singular DNS=dative,neuter,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular