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Koine Greek wordlink #17733

SR GNT Mat 25:9 ἀρκέσῃ (arkesaʸ) ‘lest by_no_means not may suffice for us and you_all’ Strongs=7140 Lemma=arkeō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #17717

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Only use of identical word form ἀρκέσῃ (V-SAA3··S) in the Greek originals

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

Mat 25:9 ‘lest by_no_means not may suffice for us and you_all’ SR GNT Mat 25:9 word 9

OET-LV: 9 But the prudent answered saying: Lest by _no _means may_ not _suffice for _us and you _all, rather be _going to the ones selling, and buy for _yourselves. (MAT_25:9)

OET-RV: 9 But the sensible ones answered, ‘We don’t have enough for everyone. You need to go to the stall and buy some for your lamps.’ (MAT 25:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘arkeō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘are sufficing’, ‘be_being sufficed’, ‘being sufficed’, ‘is sufficing’, ‘may suffice’, ‘it is sufficing’, ‘we will_be_being sufficed’.

Key: V=verb