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Koine Greek wordlink #22063

SR GNT Mark 1:20 μισθωτῶν (misthōtōn) ‘boat with the hired_hands they went_away after him’ Strongs=34110 Lemma=misthōtos
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=masculine number=plural
Year=27 AD TimeSeries=Fishers_of_Men

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Only use of identical word form μισθωτῶν (N-GMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μισθωτῶν’ (N-GMP) is always and only glossed as ‘hired_hands’.

Mark 1:20 ‘boat with the hired_hands they went_away after him’ SR GNT Mark 1:20 word 18

OET-LV: 20 And immediately he _called them. And having _left Zebedaios the father of _them in the boat with the hired _hands, they _went _away after him. (MRK_1:20)

OET-RV: 20 Yeshua called them and they too went off with him, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers. (MRK 1:20)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘misthōtos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a hired_hand’, ‘hired_hand’, ‘hired_hands’.

Key: N=noun GMP=genitive,masculine,plural