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Koine Greek wordlink #148770

SR GNT 1 Pet 1:18 ἐλυτρώθητε (elutrōthaʸte) ‘by silver or by gold you_all were redeemed from the useless’ Strongs=30840 Lemma=lutroō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=passive person=2nd number=plural
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #148452

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Only use of identical word form ἐλυτρώθητε (V-IAP2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλυτρώθητε’ (V-IAP2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘you_all were redeemed’.

1 Pet 1:18 ‘by silver or by gold you_all were redeemed from the useless’ SR GNT 1 Pet 1:18 word 10

OET-LV: 18 having _known that you _all _were _redeemed not by _perishable things, by _silver or by _gold, from the useless conduct of _you _all inherited _from _forefathers, (PE1_1:18)

OET-RV: 18 knowing that when you were in slavery due to your poor conduct that you inherited from your ancestors, you weren’t bought out of that by payment of things that decay like silver or gold, (PE1 1:18)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘lutroō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘to_be redeeming’, ‘he may redeem’, ‘you_all were redeemed’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐλυτρώθητε (V-IAP2··P) with a gloss related to ‘redeemed’

GAL 3:13 ἐξηγόρασεν (exaʸgorasen) V-IAA3··S Lemma=exagorazō ‘chosen_one/messiah us redeemed from the curse’ SR GNT Gal 3:13 word 3

OET-LV: 13 chosen _one /messiah redeemed us from the curse of _the law, having _become a_curse for us, because it _has _been _written: Cursed is everyone which having _hanged on a_tree, (GAL_3:13)

OET-RV: 13 The messiah saved us from the law’s curse by becoming the curse for our sake, because it’s written, ‘anyone who’s hung on a tree is cursed’. (GAL 3:13)

Key: V=verb