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Koine Greek wordlink #4653

SR GNT Mat 8:28 ἰσχύειν (isⱪuein) ‘exceedingly so_that not to_be was_able anyone to pass_by by’ Strongs=24800 Lemma=isχuō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Gadarene_Demoniacs

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Only use of identical word form ἰσχύειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἰσχύειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be was_able’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘isχuō’ have 21 different glosses: ‘is prevailing’, ‘to_be was_able’, ‘was able’, ‘was prevailing’, ‘I am able’, ‘I am being_strong’, ‘it is being_effective’, ‘it prevailed’, ‘it was_able’, ‘they were were_able’, ‘they will_be able’, ‘they prevailed’, ‘they were_able’, ‘we were_able’, ‘you were_able’, ‘you_all were_able’, ‘being_able’, ‘being_strong’, ‘prevailed’, ‘was_able’, ‘were_able’.

Greek words (3) other than ἰσχύειν (V-NPA····) with a gloss related to ‘was_able’

LUKE 6:48 ἴσχυσεν (isⱪusen) V-IAA3··S ‘that and not it was_able to shake it because_of’ SR GNT Luke 6:48 word 27

OET-LV: 48 he _is similar to_a_man building a_house, who dug and deepened and laid a_foundation on the rock, and having _become flood the flood dashed _against to_ the that _house, and it _was_ not _able to _shake it, because _of the thing to _have _built it well. (LUK_6:48)

OET-RV: 48 That person is like a man building a house. He dug and drilled and laid a foundation on the rock, and then when there was a flood that dashed against that house, it didn’t shake it because it was built well. (LUK 6:48)

LUKE 8:43 ἴσχυσεν (isⱪusen) V-IAA3··S ‘twelve who not was_able by no_one to_be healed’ SR GNT Luke 8:43 word 23

OET-LV: 43 And a_woman being with a_hemorrhage of _blood for twelve years, who was_ not _able to _be _healed by no _one, (LUK_8:43)

OET-RV: 43 a woman who’d had internal bleeding for twelve years and who couldn’t be helped by any doctor, (LUK 8:43)

LUKE 14:30 ἴσχυσεν (isⱪusen) V-IAA3··S ‘to_be building and not was_able to finish it’ SR GNT Luke 14:30 word 11

OET-LV: 30 saying, that This the man began to _be _building, and was_ not _able to _finish it. (LUK_14:30)

OET-RV: 30 and say, ‘This person started a building project but wasn’t able to finish it.’ (LUK 14:30)

Key: V=verb