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Koine Greek wordlink #36154

SR GNT Mark 15:16 ἔσω (esō) ‘soldiers led_away him within the palace that’ Strongs=20800 Lemma=esō
Word role=preposition
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἔσω (P-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔσω’ (P-···) is always and only glossed as ‘within’.

Mark 15:16 ‘soldiers led_away him within the palace that’ SR GNT Mark 15:16 word 6

OET-LV: 16 And the soldiers led_ him _away within the palace, that is the_residence _of _the _governor, and they _are _calling _together all the cohort. (MRK_15:16)

OET-RV: 16 So the soldiers led Yeshua inside the palace that was the governor’s residence, and called in the rest of the battalion. (MRK 15:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘esō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘inside’, ‘within’.

Key: P=preposition