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Koine Greek wordlink #160233

SR GNT Rev 10:9 κατάφαγε (katafage) ‘to me take and devour it and it will_be making_bitter’ Strongs=27190 Lemma=katesthiō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=singular
Year=96 AD Refers to Word #155558 Person=John2

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Only use of identical word form κατάφαγε (V-MAA2··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κατάφαγε’ (V-MAA2··S) is always and only glossed as ‘devour’.

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 (1) other than κατάφαγε (V-MAA2··S) with a gloss related to ‘devour’

REV 12:4 καταφάγῃ (katafagaʸ) V-SAA3··S ‘the child of her he may devour it’ SR GNT Rev 12:4 word 39

OET-LV: 4 and the tail of _him is _dragging the third of _the stars of _the sky, and he _throw them to the earth. And the dragon has _stood before the woman which going to _bear, in _order _that whenever she _may _bear, the child of _her he _may _devour it. (REV_12:4)

OET-RV: 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and hurled them down to earth, then he stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the child was delivered, he could devour it. (REV 12:4)

Key: V=verb