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Koine Greek wordlink #22686

SR GNT Mark 2:4 ἀπεστέγασαν (apestegasan) ‘because_of the crowd they unroofed the roof where’ Strongs=6480 Lemma=apostegazō^*
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Healing_the_Man_with_Palsy

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Only use of identical word form ἀπεστέγασαν (V-IAA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀπεστέγασαν’ (V-IAA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they unroofed’.

Mark 2:4 ‘because_of the crowd they unroofed the roof where’ SR GNT Mark 2:4 word 14

OET-LV: 4 And not being _able to _bring to _him because _of the crowd, they _unroofed the roof where he _was, and having _dug_ it _out, they _are _lowering the pallet where the paralytic was _lying. (MRK_2:4)

OET-RV: 4 but because of the crowd, they were unable to get close. So they climbed up onto the flat roof, made a hole through it, and lowered the paralysed man lying on a pallet. (MRK 2:4)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘apostegazō’ in the Greek originals.

Key: V=verb