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Koine Greek wordlink #36549

SR GNT Mark 15:19 ἐνέπτυον (eneptuon) ‘head with a staff and they were spitting on him and kneeling’ Strongs=17160 Lemma=emptuō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Refers to Word #36496

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Only use of identical word form ἐνέπτυον (V-IIA3..P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐνέπτυον’ (V-IIA3..P) is always and only glossed as ‘they were spitting’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘emptuō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘having spat’, ‘to_be spitting’, ‘he will_be_being spat_on’, ‘they were spitting’, ‘they will_be spitting’, ‘they spat’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐνέπτυον (V-IIA3..P) with a gloss related to ‘spitting’

MARK 10:34 ἐμπτύσουσιν (emptusousin) V-IFA3..P ‘they will_be mocking at him and they will_be spitting on him and they will_be flogging’ SR GNT Mark 10:34 word 8

MARK 14:65 ἐμπτύειν (emptuein) V-NPA.... ‘and began some to_be spitting on him and to_be blindfolding’ SR GNT Mark 14:65 word 4

Key: V=verb IFA3..P=indicative,future,active,3rd person plural IIA3..P=indicative,imperfect,active,3rd person plural NPA....=infinitive,present,active