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Koine Greek wordlink #25349

SR GNT Mark 5:9 Λεγιών (Legiōn) ‘and he is saying to him Many_thousands is the name to me because’ Strongs=30030 Lemma=legiōn^*
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Gadarene_Demoniacs

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Only use of identical word form Λεγιών (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Λεγιών’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘Many_thousands is’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Λεγιών’ (N-NFS) was always and only glossed as ‘Legion is’).

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

Greek words (2) other than Λεγιών (N-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘Many_thousands’

MARK 5:15 λεγεῶνα (legeōna) N-AMS Lemma=legeōn ‘the one having had the Many_thousands and they were afraid’ SR GNT Mark 5:15 word 21

OET-LV: 15 And they _are _coming to the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), and they _are _observing the man being _demon _possessed sitting, having _been _clothed and being _sensible, the one having _had the Many _thousands, and they _were _afraid. (MRK_5:15)

OET-RV: 15 When they arrived where Yeshua was, they saw the man who had been demon-possessed fully-clothed and sitting there in full control of his senses. They knew it was the man called ‘Thousands’ and they became frightened. (MRK 5:15)

LUKE 8:30 Λεγεών (Legeōn) N-NFS Lemma=legeōn ‘he and said Many_thousands because came_in demons’ SR GNT Luke 8:30 word 16

OET-LV: 30 And the Yaʸsous asked him: What to _you is the_name? And he said: Many _thousands, because many demons came _in into him. (LUK_8:30)

OET-RV: 30 “What’s your name?” Yeshua asked.
¶ “Thousands,” he answered, because many thousands of demons had entered him (LUK 8:30)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular