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Koine Greek wordlink #27236

SR GNT Mark 6:48 ἐλαύνειν (elaunein) ‘being tormented in the time to_be rowing was for the’ Strongs=16430 Lemma=elaunō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=28 AD Refers to Word #27176

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Only use of identical word form ἐλαύνειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλαύνειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be rowing’.

Mark 6:48 ‘being tormented in the time to_be rowing was for the’ SR GNT Mark 6:48 word 9

OET-LV: 48 And having _seen them being _tormented in the time to _be _rowing, because/for the wind was contrary to _them, about the_fourth watch of _the night he _is _coming to them, walking on the sea, and was _wanting to _pass _by them. (MRK_6:48)

OET-RV: 48 He saw them struggling to row against the wind, and sometime after 3am he came out to them, walking on the lake surface as if to walk past them. (MRK 6:48)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘elaunō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘being driven’, ‘having rowed’, ‘to_be rowing’, ‘he was_being driven’.

Key: V=verb