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Koine Greek wordlink #25221

SR GNT Mark 5:4 πέδαις (pedais) ‘that him often with shackles and chains to_have bound’ Strongs=39760 Lemma=pedē
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Gadarene_Demoniacs

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Other uses (1) of identical word form πέδαις (N-DFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πέδαις’ (N-DFP) has 2 different glosses: ‘in shackles’, ‘with shackles’.

Luke 8:29 ‘he was_being bound with chains and in shackles being guarded and tearing’ SR GNT Luke 8:29 word 27

OET-LV: 29 for/because He _commanded to _the the spirit unclean to _come _out from the man. For/Because for/because _many times it _had _seized him, and he _was _being _bound with _chains and being _guarded in _shackles, and tearing the bonds, he _was _being _driven by the demon into the wildernesss. (LUK_8:29)

OET-RV: 29 He said this because Yeshua had commanded the evil spirit to come out from the man. The demon had animated him many times and he’d needed to be put in chains and shackles, but he would break them off and the demon would drive him into the wilderness. (LUK 8:29)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pedē’ have 3 different glosses: ‘in shackles’, ‘with shackles’, ‘shackles’.

Greek words (1) other than πέδαις (N-DFP) with a gloss related to ‘shackles’

MARK 5:4 πέδας (pedas) N-AFP ‘chains and the shackles to_have broken and no_one’ SR GNT Mark 5:4 word 27

OET-LV: 4 because _of that him often to _have _bound with _shackles and chains, and the chains to _have _torn _apart by him and the shackles to _have _broken, and no _one was _able to _tame him. (MRK_5:4)

OET-RV: 4 because he had often been tied up in the past with shackles and chains but had always pulled the chains apart and smashed the shackles, and no one was able to subdue him. (MRK 5:4)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural DFP=dative,feminine,plural