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Koine Greek wordlink #30828

SR GNT Mark 10:21 Ἕν (Hen) ‘and said to him one thing you is lacking be going’ Strongs=15200 Lemma=heis
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=29 AD

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Only use of identical word form Ἕν (S-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἕν’ (S-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘one thing’.

Mark 10:21 ‘and said to him one thing you is lacking be going’ SR GNT Mark 10:21 word 18

OET-LV: 21 And the Yaʸsous having _focused _in on _him, loved him and said to _him: one thing is _lacking you: be _going, sell as _much _as you _are _having, and give poor, and you _will _be _having treasure in heaven, and come, be _following after _me. (MRK_10:21)

OET-RV: 21 Yeshua looked up at him with genuine love and said, “There’s one thing still to be done: sell everything you have and give the money to the poor—then you’ll have wealth in heaven. After that, come and follow me.” (MRK 10:21)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘heis’ have 20 different glosses: ‘the first day’, ‘the one’, ‘by one’, ‘for one’, ‘for one party’, ‘from one’, ‘in one’, ‘of the one’, ‘of one’, ‘there_is one’, ‘to one’, ‘with one’, ‘first’, ‘first day’, ‘one’, ‘one final’, ‘one man’, ‘one thing’, ‘one transgression’, ‘one was’.

Key: S=substantive adjective NNS=nominative,neuter,singular