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Koine Greek wordlink #150978

SR GNT 2 Pet 2:3 ἔκπαλαι (ekpalai) ‘for whom the judgement anciently not is idling and’ Strongs=15970 Lemma=ekpalai
Word role=adverb
Year=66 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἔκπαλαι (D-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔκπαλαι’ (D-···) is always and only glossed as ‘anciently’.

2 Pet 3:5 ‘that the heavens were anciently and the earth out_of’ SR GNT 2 Pet 3:5 word 9

OET-LV: 5 For/Because this is _escaping _notice them willing, that the_heavens were anciently, and the_earth having _consisted out _of water and through water by _the message of_ the _god, (PE2_3:5)

OET-RV: 5 But because of their desires, the truth is hidden from them that the universe came into being long ago by God’s spoken command and the earth was formed out of water and through water (PE2 3:5)

Key: D=adverb