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Koine Greek wordlink #160236

SR GNT Rev 10:9 πικρανεῖ (pikranei) ‘devour it and it will_be making_bitter of you the stomach’ Strongs=40870 Lemma=pikrainō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=future voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=96 AD Refers to Word #160226

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Only use of identical word form πικρανεῖ (V-IFA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πικρανεῖ’ (V-IFA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘it will_be making_bitter’.

Rev 10:9 ‘devour it and it will_be making_bitter of you the stomach’ SR GNT Rev 10:9 word 24

OET-LV: 9 And I _went _away to the messenger, telling to _him to _give to _me the little _scroll. And he _is _saying to _me: Take and devour it, and it _will _be _making _bitter of _you the stomach, but in the mouth of _you, it _will _be sweet as honey. (REV_10:9)

OET-RV: 9 So I went to the messenger and asked him to give me the little scroll, and he answered, “Take it and eat it. At first it’ll taste sweet like honey, but afterwards it’ll be uncomfortable in your stomach.” (REV 10:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pikrainō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘be_being embittered’, ‘was made_bitter’, ‘it will_be making_bitter’, ‘they were made_bitter’.

Key: V=verb