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Koine Greek wordlink #151244

SR GNT 2 Pet 2:17 ἐλαυνόμεναι (elaunomenai) ‘mists by storm being driven for whom darkness of darkness’ Strongs=16430 Lemma=elaunō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=passive case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=66 AD Refers to Word #151240

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Only use of identical word form ἐλαυνόμεναι (V-PPP·NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλαυνόμεναι’ (V-PPP·NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘being driven’.

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’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐλαυνόμεναι (V-PPP·NFP) with a gloss related to ‘driven’

LUKE 8:29 ἠλαύνετο (aʸlauneto) V-IIP3··S ‘tearing the bonds he was_being driven by the demon’ SR GNT Luke 8:29 word 36

OET-LV: 29 for/because He _commanded to _the the spirit unclean to _come _out from the man. For/Because for/because _many times it _had _seized him, and he _was _being _bound with _chains and being _guarded in _shackles, and tearing the bonds, he _was _being _driven by the demon into the wildernesss. (LUK_8:29)

OET-RV: 29 He said this because Yeshua had commanded the evil spirit to come out from the man. The demon had animated him many times and he’d needed to be put in chains and shackles, but he would break them off and the demon would drive him into the wilderness. (LUK 8:29)

YAC 3:4 ἐλαυνόμενα (elaunomena) V-PPP·NNP ‘by winds hard being driven is_being directed by the least’ SR GNT Yac 3:4 word 13

OET-LV: 4 Behold, also the ships, so _great being, and by winds hard being _driven, is _being _directed by the_least rudder, wherever the impulse of _the one straightening is _wishing. (JAM_3:4)

OET-RV: 4 Similarly, even huge ships that are being driven on by strong winds are controlled by a small rudder and can be steered wherever the captain desires. (JAM 3:4)

Key: V=verb