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Koine Greek wordlink #2107

SR GNT Mat 5:18 κεραία (keraia) ‘one or one serif by_no_means not may pass_away’ Strongs=27620 Lemma=keraia
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount

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Only use of identical word form κεραία (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κεραία’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘serif’.

Mat 5:18 ‘one or one serif by_no_means not may pass_away’ SR GNT Mat 5:18 word 17

OET-LV: 18 For/Because truly I _am _saying to _you _all, until the heaven and the earth wishfully may _pass _away, one Iota or one serif by _no _means may_ not _pass _away from the law, until wishfully all things may _become. (MAT_5:18)

OET-RV: 18 because I can assure you all that until heaven and earth reach their end, not one letter or mark will be taken away from those instructions until everything is fulfilled. (MAT 5:18)

Greek words (1) other than κεραία (N-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘serif’

LUKE 16:17 κεραίαν (keraian) N-AFS ‘of the law one serif to fall’ SR GNT Luke 16:17 word 14

OET-LV: 17 But it _is easier the for _heaven and the earth to _pass _away, than one serif of _the law to _fall. (LUK_16:17)

OET-RV: 17 but it’s easier for the sky and the earth to disappear than it is for one small part of the law to fall. (LUK 16:17)

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