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Koine Greek wordlink #151039

SR GNT 2 Pet 2:6 ἀσεβεῖν (asebein) ‘condemned them an example of going to_be acting_ungodly having presented’ Strongs=7640 Lemma=asebeō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=66 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἀσεβεῖν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀσεβεῖν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be acting_ungodly’.

2 Pet 2:6 ‘condemned them an example of going to_be acting_ungodly having presented’ SR GNT 2 Pet 2:6 word 15

OET-LV: 6 and having _reduced _to _ashes the_cities of_Sodoma/(Şədom) and Gomorra/(ˊAmorāh) condemned them, having _presented an_example of _going to _be _acting _ungodly (PE2_2:6)

OET-RV: 6 and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Amorah (Gomorrah) to ashes by a catastrophe which condemned them to being an example of what the ungodly will become, (PE2 2:6)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘asebeō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘to_be acting_ungodly’, ‘they acted_ungodly’.

Key: V=verb