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Koine Greek wordlink #1138

SR GNT Mat 3:9 ἐγεῖραι (egeirai) ‘the stones these to raise children to Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām)’ Strongs=14530 Lemma=egeirō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=26 AD TimeSeries=John_the_Baptist_Begins_Ministry

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἐγεῖραι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐγεῖραι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to raise’.

Luke 3:8 ‘from stones these to raise children to Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām)’ SR GNT Luke 3:8 word 32

OET-LV: 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of_ the _repentance, and you _all _may_ not _begin to _be _saying in yourselves, we _are _having the Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) As _father, because/for I _am _saying to _you _all that the god is _able to _raise children to_ the _Abraʼam from the these stones. (LUK_3:8)

OET-RV: 8 So then start demonstrating the qualities that show you have actually turned from your disobedience. And don’t start by telling me that you’re descendants of Abraham, because I can tell you all that God could make descendants out of these stones here. (LUK 3:8)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘egeirō’ have 33 different glosses: ‘are_being raised’, ‘be raised’, ‘be raising’, ‘be_being raised’, ‘has_been raised’, ‘having raised’, ‘having_been raised’, ‘is raising’, ‘is_being raised’, ‘may_be raised’, ‘may_be_being raised’, ‘to raise’, ‘to_be raised’, ‘to_be raising’, ‘to_be raising him’, ‘was raised’, ‘were raised’, ‘will_be raising’, ‘will_be raising it’, ‘will_be_being raised’, ‘I am_being raised’, ‘I will_be raising’, ‘he has_been raised’, ‘he is_being raised’, ‘he was raised’, ‘he will_be_being raised’, ‘he raised’, ‘it is_being raised’, ‘she was raised’, ‘they are_being raised’, ‘they raised’, ‘raised’, ‘raising’.

Key: V=verb