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Koine Greek wordlink #1046

SR GNT Mat 3:4 ὀσφύν (osfun) ‘leather around the waist of him the and’ Strongs=37510 Lemma=osfus
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=26 AD TimeSeries=John_the_Baptist_Begins_Ministry

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ὀσφύν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὀσφύν’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘waist’.

Mark 1:6 ‘leather around the waist of him and eating’ SR GNT Mark 1:6 word 15

OET-LV: 6 And the Yōannaʸs was having _dressed _in hairs of_a_camel, and a_ leather _belt around the waist of _him, and eating locusts and wild honey. (MRK_1:6)

OET-RV: 6 Yohan was dressed in simple clothes made from camel hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on locusts and wild honey. (MRK 1:6)

Eph 6:14 ‘therefore having girded_about the waist of you_all with truth’ SR GNT Eph 6:14 word 5

OET-LV: 14 Therefore stand: having _girded _about the waist of _you _all with truth, and having _dressed _in the breastplate of_ the _righteousness, (EPH_6:14)

OET-RV: 14 So then, stand with the belt of truth around your waist, wearing the breastplate of righteousness, (EPH 6:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘osfus’ have 3 different glosses: ‘loin’, ‘loins’, ‘waist’.

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular