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Koine Greek wordlink #30137

SR GNT Mark 9:39 κακολογῆσαι (kakologaʸsai) ‘also will_be able quickly to speak_evil_of me’ Strongs=25510 Lemma=kakologeō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=32 AD

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Only use of identical word form κακολογῆσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κακολογῆσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to speak_evil_of’.

Mark 9:39 ‘also will_be able quickly to speak_evil_of me’ SR GNT Mark 9:39 word 25

OET-LV: 39 And the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) said: Be_ not _forbidding him, because/for is no _one who will _be _doing a_miracle in the name of _me, will _be _able quickly also to _speak _evil _of me. (MRK_9:39)

OET-RV: 39 Yeshua responded, “No, don’t stop him because anyone who does a miracle using my name won’t just quickly turn around and slander me. (MRK 9:39)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kakologeō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘to speak_evil_of’, ‘speaking_evil’, ‘speaking_evil of’.

Key: V=verb