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Koine Greek wordlink #160929

SR GNT Rev 11:19 βρονταί (brontai) ‘and voices and thunders and an earthquake and’ Strongs=10270 Lemma=brontē
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=96 AD

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Other uses (6) of identical word form βρονταί (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βρονταί’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘thunders’.

Rev 4:5 ‘and voices and thunders and seven lamps’ SR GNT Rev 4:5 word 11

OET-LV: 5 And out _of the throne are _going _out lightnings, and voices, and thunders. And seven lamps of _fire being _burned before the throne, which is the seven spirits of_ the _god, (REV_4:5)

OET-RV: 5 From the centre throne came lightning flashes and thunderous sounds and voices. In front of it, seven torches were burning, which are God’s seven spirits. (REV 4:5)

Rev 8:5 ‘earth and there became thunders and sounds and’ SR GNT Rev 8:5 word 26

OET-LV: 5 And has _taken the messenger the censer, and filled it from the fire of _the altar, and he _throw it on the earth, and there _became thunders, and sounds, and lightnings, and an_earthquake. (REV_8:5)

OET-RV: 5 Then the messenger took the bowl and filled it with coals of fire from the altar, and threw them onto the earth and that caused peals of thunder and roaring, and lightning bolts and an earthquake. (REV 8:5)

Rev 10:3 ‘spoke the seven thunders the of themselves voices’ SR GNT Rev 10:3 word 16

OET-LV: 3 and he _cried _out with_a_voice loud as a_lion is _roaring. And when he _cried _out, spoke the seven thunders the of _themselves voices. (REV_10:3)

OET-RV: 3 and shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders spoke out in their own voices. (REV 10:3)

Rev 10:4 ‘spoke the seven thunders I was going to_be writing but’ SR GNT Rev 10:4 word 8

OET-LV: 4 And when spoke the seven thunders, I _was _going to _be _writing, but I _heard a_voice out _of the heaven saying: Seal what things spoke the seven thunders, and not them you _may _write. (REV_10:4)

OET-RV: 4 When the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write down what they said but I heard a voice from heaven that said, “Keep what the seven thunders have said secret, and don’t write it down.” (REV 10:4)

Rev 10:4 ‘spoke the seven thunders and not them’ SR GNT Rev 10:4 word 33

Rev 16:18 ‘and voices and thunders and an earthquake became’ SR GNT Rev 16:18 word 9

OET-LV: 18 And became lightnings, and and voices, and thunders, an_earthquake became great, such _as not became, from of _which mankind became on the earth, the_so _great earthquake was thus great. (REV_16:18)

OET-RV: 18 Then there was lightning and thunder and other sounds, and a terrible earthquake, such as had not happened since people had been on the earth. Such a powerful earthquake, so massive! (REV 16:18)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘brontē’ have 4 different glosses: ‘of thunder’, ‘of thunders’, ‘thunder’, ‘thunders’.

Greek words (1) other than βρονταί (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘thunders’

REV 19:6 βροντῶν (brontōn) N-GFP ‘and like a sound of thunders mighty saying hallelujah’ SR GNT Rev 19:6 word 15

OET-LV: 6 And I _heard something like the_voice of_a_crowd great, and as the_sound of _waters many, and like a_sound of _thunders mighty saying: Praise _Yāh, because reigned the_master, the god of _us the almighty. (REV_19:6)

OET-RV: 6 Then I heard what sounded like a large crowd and what seemed to be the sounds of lots of water and of powerful thunder, saying, “Praise Yah, because our God, the powerful Yahweh, reigns. (REV 19:6)

Key: N=noun GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural