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Koine Greek wordlink #29429

SR GNT Mark 9:9 διηγήσωνται (diaʸgaʸsōntai) ‘to no_one what they saw they may describe except whenever the’ Strongs=13340 Lemma=diēgeomai
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=middle person=3rd number=plural
Year=32 AD

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Only use of identical word form διηγήσωνται (V-SAM3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διηγήσωνται’ (V-SAM3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they may describe’.

Mark 9:9 ‘to no_one what they saw they may describe except whenever the’ SR GNT Mark 9:9 word 17

OET-LV: 9 And them coming _down from the mountain, he _instructed to _them that they _may _describe to _no _one what they _saw, except not/lest whenever the son of_ the _man may _rise _up from the_dead. (MRK_9:9)

OET-RV: 9 As they came down the hill again, Yeshua told them not to tell anyone what had happened up there until after the son of humanity had come back to life. (MRK 9:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘diēgeomai’ have 6 different glosses: ‘be describing’, ‘will_be describing’, ‘he described’, ‘they may describe’, ‘described’, ‘describing’.

Key: V=verb