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Koine Greek wordlink #475

SR GNT Mat 2:1 μάγοι (magoi) ‘the king see wise_men from east arrived’ Strongs=30970 Lemma=magos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=-4 TimeSeries=Wise_Men_Visit_Herod Referred to from Word #481 Referred to from Word #489 Referred to from Word #498 Referred to from Word #499

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Only use of identical word form μάγοι (N-NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μάγοι’ (N-NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘wise_men’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘μάγοι’ (N-NMP) was always and only glossed as ‘magi’).

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘magos’ have 2 different glosses: ‘magician’, ‘wise_men’.

Greek words (3) other than μάγοι (N-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘wise_men’

MAT 2:7 μάγους (magous) N-AMP ‘secretly having called the wise_men ascertained from them’ SR GNT Mat 2:7 word 6

OET-LV: 7 Then Haʸrōdaʸs having_ secretly _called the wise _men, ascertained from them the time of _the appearing star. (MAT_2:7)

OET-RV: 7 Then Herod sent for the watchers of signs and met secretly with them to determine when the star had first appeared. (MAT 2:7)

MAT 2:16 μάγων (magōn) N-GMP ‘he was mocked by the wise_men was enraged exceedingly and’ SR GNT Mat 2:16 word 8

OET-LV: 16 Then Haʸrōdaʸs, having _seen that he _was _mocked by the wise _men, was _enraged exceedingly and having _sent _out, he _killed all the boys which in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all the regions of _it from two _year and lower, according _to the time which he _ascertained from the wise _men. (MAT_2:16)

OET-RV: 16 When King Herod realised that he’d been tricked by the watchers of signs, he got very angry and gave orders that all the sons in Bethlehem and its districts that were two years old and younger be killed, because that was the period that he’d found out from the watchers of signs. (MAT 2:16)

MAT 2:16 μάγων (magōn) N-GMP ‘he ascertained from the wise_men’ SR GNT Mat 2:16 word 40

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural