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Koine Greek wordlink #33054

SR GNT Mark 12:28 Ποία (Poia) ‘to them asked him which is command the first’ Strongs=41690 Lemma=poios
Word role=pronoun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form Ποία (R-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ποία’ (R-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘which’.

Mark 12:28 ‘to them asked him which is command the first’ SR GNT Mark 12:28 word 24

OET-LV: 28 And one of _the scribes having _approached, having _heard of _them debating, having _seen that he _answered well to _them, asked him: Which command is the_first of _all? (MRK_12:28)

OET-RV: 28 Then one of the religious teachers who had heard their question and Yeshua’s excellent answer, came closer and asked, “Which of God’s commands is the most important?” (MRK 12:28)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘poios’ have 10 different glosses: ‘by what’, ‘by what way’, ‘in what’, ‘on what’, ‘with what’, ‘what’, ‘what is’, ‘what things’, ‘which’, ‘which ones’.

Key: R=pronoun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular