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Koine Greek wordlink #160261

SR GNT Rev 10:10 κατέφαγον (katefagon) ‘of the messenger and I devoured it and it was’ Strongs=27190 Lemma=katesthiō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=96 AD Refers to Word #155558 Person=John2

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Only use of identical word form κατέφαγον (V-IAA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κατέφαγον’ (V-IAA1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I devoured’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘katesthiō’ have 13 different glosses: ‘are devouring’, ‘having devoured’, ‘is devouring’, ‘is devouring you_all’, ‘will_be consuming’, ‘I devoured’, ‘he may devour it’, ‘it devoured’, ‘you are devouring’, ‘you_all are devouring’, ‘devour’, ‘devoured’, ‘devouring’.

Greek words (5) other than κατέφαγον (V-IAA1··S) with a gloss related to ‘devoured’

MARK 4:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3··S ‘the birds and devoured it’ SR GNT Mark 4:4 word 23

OET-LV: 4 And it _became at the time to _be _sowing, some indeed fell along the road, and the birds came and devoured it. (MRK_4:4)

OET-RV: 4 As he spread it, some landed on the path, and the birds came and fed on it. (MRK 4:4)

MAT 13:4 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3··S ‘the birds and devoured them’ SR GNT Mat 13:4 word 20

OET-LV: 4 And in the time to _be _sowing of _him, some on _one _hand fell along the road, and the birds came and devoured them. (MAT_13:4)

OET-RV: 4 As he was spreading the seed, some of it fell beside a path and the birds come and ate that seed. (MAT 13:4)

LUKE 8:5 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3··S ‘birds of the sky devoured it’ SR GNT Luke 8:5 word 29

OET-LV: 5 The one sowing came _out which to _sow the seed of _him. And at the time him to _be _sowing, some indeed fell along the road, and it _was _trampled and the birds of _the sky devoured it. (LUK_8:5)

OET-RV: 5 “One day a farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he spread the seeds, some of them fell along the path where they got trampled on, and the birds ate them. (LUK 8:5)

LUKE 15:30 καταφαγών (katafagōn) V-PAA·NMS ‘son of you this having devoured of you the living’ SR GNT Luke 15:30 word 11

OET-LV: 30 But when the this son of _you, he _came which having _devoured the living of _you with prostitutes, you _sacrificed the grain _fed calf for _him. (LUK_15:30)

OET-RV: 30 Yet when this son of yours comes home after using up your money living with prostitutes, then you slaughter the fattened calf for him!’ (LUK 15:30)

REV 20:9 κατέφαγεν (katefagen) V-IAA3··S ‘the sky and it devoured them’ SR GNT Rev 20:9 word 33

OET-LV: 9 And they _went _up on the breadth of _the earth, and surrounded the camp of _the holy ones, and the city which having _been _loved. But came _down fire out _of the sky and it _devoured them. (REV_20:9)

OET-RV: 9 They’ll cover the whole world and surround the camp of the believers and the beloved city, but fire will come down from heaven and burn them up. (REV 20:9)

Key: V=verb