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Koine Greek wordlink #131091

SR GNT Php 1:21 κέρδος (kerdos) ‘chosen_one/messiah and to die_off is gain’ Strongs=27710 Lemma=kerdos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form κέρδος (N-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κέρδος’ (N-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘gain’.

Greek words (7) other than κέρδος (N-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘gain’

MARK 8:36 κερδήσῃ (kerdaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S Lemma=kerdainō ‘for it is benefiting a person he may gain the world whole’ SR GNT Mark 8:36 word 9

OET-LV: 36 For/Because what is _it _benefiting a_person, he _may _gain the whole world and the soul of _him to _be _lost? (MRK_8:36)

OET-RV: 36 Because it doesn’t benefit a person if they gain everything in the world but lose their soul. (MRK 8:36)

MAT 16:26 κερδήσῃ (kerdaʸsaʸ) V-SAA3··S Lemma=kerdainō ‘the world whole he may gain the but soul’ SR GNT Mat 16:26 word 10

OET-LV: 26 For/Because what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _being _benefitted, if he _may _gain the whole world, but the soul of _him may _be _lost? Or what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _giving as_an_exchange for _the soul of _him? (MAT_16:26)

OET-RV: 26 What help would it be to a person if they gain everything in the world, and yet lose their soul? Or put another way, what could a person give in exchange for their soul? (MAT 16:26)

ACTs 27:21 κερδῆσαι (kerdaʸsai) V-NAA···· Lemma=kerdainō ‘to_be_being launched from Kraʸtaʸ to gain and damage this’ SR GNT Acts 27:21 word 25

OET-LV: 21 And of _much abstinence being, then the Paulos having _been _stood in midst of _them said: It _was _fitting indeed, Oh men, having _yielded to _me, not to _be _being _launched from the Kraʸtaʸ, and to _gain the this damage, and the loss. (ACT_27:21)

OET-RV: 21 and no one had eaten or drunk much at all.
¶ Then Paul stood up in the middle of them and said, “Well, you should have listened to me after all and not left Crete, so now we have this damage and loss. (ACT 27:21)

1 COR 9:19 κερδήσω (kerdaʸsō) V-SAA1··S Lemma=kerdainō ‘in_order_that the more I may gain’ SR GNT 1 Cor 9:19 word 12

OET-LV: 19 For/Because free being from all, to _all myself I _enslaved, in _order _that the more I _may _gain. (CO1_9:19)

OET-RV: 19 Although I have no obligation to any person, I made myself a slave of everyone in order to win over as many as possible. (CO1 9:19)

PHP 3:7 κέρδη (kerdaʸ) N-NNP ‘which things was to me gain these I have considered because_of’ SR GNT Php 3:7 word 6

OET-LV: 7 But which things was to _me gain, these I _have _considered because _of the chosen _one /messiah loss. (PHP_3:7)

OET-RV: 7 However, all of those things which were considered advantages, now because of Messiah I consider them disadvantages. (PHP 3:7)

PHP 3:8 κερδήσω (kerdaʸsō) V-SAA1··S Lemma=kerdainō ‘rubbish in_order_that chosen_one/messiah I may gain’ SR GNT Php 3:8 word 32

OET-LV: 8 But indeed _rather also I _am _considering all things loss to _be, because _of that being _above the knowledge of_chosen _one /messiah Yaʸsous the master of _me, because _of whom the things all I _was _lost and I _am _considering them rubbish, in _order _that chosen _one /messiah I _may _gain (PHP_3:8)

OET-RV: 8 In fact, I consider everything to be a loss to me because knowing Messiah Yeshua, my master, is superior. It’s because of him that I discard everything else, considering it all to be rubbish so that I can gain Messiah (PHP 3:8)

TIT 1:11 κέρδους (kerdous) N-GNS ‘not it is fitting shameful gain for_reason_of’ SR GNT Tit 1:11 word 14

OET-LV: 11 whom it _is _fitting to _be _silencing, who are _overturning whole households, teaching the things it _is_ not _fitting, for _reason _of shameful gain. (TIT_1:11)

OET-RV: 11 These people need to be silenced because they mess up whole families when they teach them things that they shouldn’t—all for the sake of shameful game. (TIT 1:11)

Key: N=noun V=verb GNS=genitive,neuter,singular NNP=nominative,neuter,plural NNS=nominative,neuter,singular