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Koine Greek wordlink #3132

SR GNT Mat 6:16 πρόσωπα (prosōpa) ‘they are disfiguring for the appearances of them so_that they may_be seen’ Strongs=43830 Lemma=prosōpon
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=neuter number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount

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Other uses (4) of identical word form πρόσωπα (N-ANP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πρόσωπα’ (N-ANP) has 3 different glosses: ‘appearances’, ‘faces’, ‘people’.

Luke 24:5 ‘and bowing their faces to the ground’ SR GNT Luke 24:5 word 12

OET-LV: 5 And them having _become frightened, and bowing their faces to the ground, they _said to them: Why are _you _all _seeking the_ living _one with the dead? (LUK_24:5)

OET-RV: 5 The women were scared, and knelt down and bowed with their faces close to the ground, but the men asked them, “Why are you looking for the living in the place of the dead? (LUK 24:5)

Yud (Jud) 1:16 ‘is speaking arrogant messages marvelling people benefit for_reason_of’ SR GNT Yud (Jud) 1:16 word 20

OET-LV: 16 These are grumblings complaining, following according _to the lusts of _them, and the mouth of _them is _speaking arrogant messages, marvelling people for _reason _of benefit. (JDE_1:16)

OET-RV: 16 This includes their grumbling and complaining, the fulfilling of their own lustful desires, the arrogant way that they spoke, and their flattering of others in order to gain from them. (JDE 1:16)

Rev 7:11 ‘throne on the faces of them and they prostrated’ SR GNT Rev 7:11 word 23

OET-LV: 11 And all the messengers had _stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living _creatures, and they _fell before the throne on the faces of _them, and they _prostrated the before_god (REV_7:11)

OET-RV: 11 Then all the messengers stood around the throne, and around the elders and the four living beings. The messengers all knelt down in front of the throne with their faces to the ground and worshipped God (REV 7:11)

Rev 11:16 ‘fell on the faces of them and they prostrated’ SR GNT Rev 11:16 word 22

OET-LV: 16 And the twenty four elders which before of_ the _god were _sitting on the thrones of _them, fell on the faces of _them, and they _prostrated the before_god (REV_11:16)

OET-RV: 16 The twenty-four elders sitting on their thrones in front of God knelt down with their faces to the ground and worshipped God, (REV 11:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prosōpon’ have 14 different glosses: ‘any person’, ‘his face’, ‘the appearance’, ‘the face’, ‘the faces’, ‘the presence’, ‘by face’, ‘in face’, ‘appearance’, ‘appearances’, ‘face’, ‘faces’, ‘people’, ‘presence’.

Key: N=noun ANP=accusative,neuter,plural