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Koine Greek wordlink #817

SR GNT Mat 2:16 παῖδας (paidas) ‘he killed all the boys in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and’ Strongs=38160 Lemma=pais
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=-4 TimeSeries=Herod_slays_male_children

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Other uses (2) of identical word form παῖδας (N-AMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘παῖδας’ (N-AMP) has 3 different glosses: ‘boys’, ‘children’, ‘servant_boys’.

Mat 21:15 ‘he did and the children crying_out in the’ SR GNT Mat 21:15 word 14

OET-LV: 15 But the chief _priests and the scribes having _seen the wonders that he _did, and the children which crying _out in the temple and saying: Honoured _saviour to _the son of _Dawid, they _resented (MAT_21:15)

OET-RV: 15 But the chief priests and religious teachers, having seen him do miracles and having heard the children in the temple yelling out ‘David’s descendant, honoured saviour!’ became angry (MAT 21:15)

Luke 12:45 ‘may begin to_be striking the servant_boys and the servant_girls’ SR GNT Luke 12:45 word 23

OET-LV: 45 But if the that slave may _say in the heart of _him, the master of _me Is _delaying to _be _coming, and may _begin to _be _striking the servant _boys and the servant _girls, to _be _eating and/both and to _be _drinking and to _be _being _drunk, (LUK_12:45)

OET-RV: 45 In contrast, if that slave thought to himself that the master might be away for a long time, he might start beating the slave boys and slave girls, and start ordering feasts, and drinking and getting drunk, (LUK 12:45)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pais’ have 8 different glosses: ‘the servant’, ‘boy’, ‘boys’, ‘children’, ‘girl’, ‘servant’, ‘servant_boys’, ‘servants’.

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural