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Koine Greek wordlink #1054

SR GNT Mat 3:4 ἀκρίδες (akrides) ‘food was of him locusts and honey wild’ Strongs=2000 Lemma=akris
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=26 AD TimeSeries=John_the_Baptist_Begins_Ministry

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἀκρίδες (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀκρίδες’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘locusts’.

Rev 9:3 ‘the smoke came_out locusts to the earth’ SR GNT Rev 9:3 word 6

OET-LV: 3 And out _of the smoke came _out locusts to the earth, and was _given to _them power, like are _having power the scorpions of _the earth. (REV_9:3)

OET-RV: 3 Then locusts came out of the smoke and descended on the land, and they were given stinging power like the large scorpions of the earth. (REV 9:3)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘akris’ have 2 different glosses: ‘locusts’, ‘locusts was’.

Greek words (2) other than ἀκρίδες (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘locusts’

MARK 1:6 ἀκρίδας (akridas) N-AFP ‘of him and eating locusts and honey wild’ SR GNT Mark 1:6 word 20

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)

REV 9:7 ἀκρίδων (akridōn) N-GFP ‘the likenesses of the locusts was similar to horses having_been prepared’ SR GNT Rev 9:7 word 5

OET-LV: 7 And the likenesses of _the locusts was similar to _horses having _been _prepared for war, and something on the heads of _them were like crowns similar to _gold, and the faces of _them like the_faces of _humans, (REV_9:7)

OET-RV: 7 The locusts looked like horses that had been prepared for battle, with something on their heads that were similar to golden crowns and their faces being like human faces. (REV 9:7)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural