Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #148680

SR GNT 1 Pet 1:12 παρακύψαι (parakupsai) ‘which things are desiring messengers to investigate’ Strongs=38790 Lemma=parakuptō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #148679

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

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

1 Pet 1:12 ‘which things are desiring messengers to investigate’ SR GNT 1 Pet 1:12 word 30

OET-LV: 12 To _whom it _was _revealed that they _were_ not _serving unto _themselves, but unto _you _all the_same things, which now was _declared to _you _all, by the ones having _good _message _preached to _you _all by_the_ holy _spirit, having _been _sent _out from heaven, into which things messengers are _desiring to _investigate. (PE1_1:12)

OET-RV: 12 It was shown to them that they weren’t just serving themselves, but were serving you as they declared all the same things that have been preached to you by the holy spirit who was sent from heaven. Even God’s messengers in heaven wanted to know more about those things. (PE1 1:12)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘parakuptō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘having investigated’, ‘having stooped_down’, ‘to investigate’, ‘she stooped_down’.

Key: V=verb