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Koine Greek wordlink #21437

SR GNT Mat 28:13 ἔκλεψαν (eklepsan) ‘of him by night having come stole him of us falling_asleep’ Strongs=28130 Lemma=kleptō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=33 AD Referred to from Word #21471

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Only use of identical word form ἔκλεψαν (V-IAA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔκλεψαν’ (V-IAA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘stole’.

Mat 28:13 ‘of him by night having come stole him of us falling_asleep’ SR GNT Mat 28:13 word 10

OET-LV: 13 saying: Say that: The apprentices/followers of _him having _come by _night, stole him of _us falling _asleep. (MAT_28:13)

OET-RV: 13 and told them, “Tell everyone that his followers came in the dark and stole his body when you had fallen asleep. (MAT 28:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kleptō’ have 10 different glosses: ‘are stealing’, ‘let_be stealing’, ‘may steal’, ‘to_be stealing’, ‘he may steal’, ‘you are stealing’, ‘you may steal’, ‘you will_be stealing’, ‘stealing’, ‘stole’.

Key: V=verb