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Koine Greek wordlink #161091

SR GNT Rev 12:6 τρέφωσιν (trefōsin) ‘god in_order_that there they may_be nourishing her for days thousand’ Strongs=51420 Lemma=trefō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=present voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form τρέφωσιν (V-SPA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τρέφωσιν’ (V-SPA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they may_be nourishing’.

Rev 12:6 ‘god in_order_that there they may_be nourishing her for days thousand’ SR GNT Rev 12:6 word 20

OET-LV: 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she _is _having there a_place having _been _prepared by the god, in _order _that there they _may _be _nourishing her for _days two _hundred thousand sixty. (REV_12:6)

OET-RV: 6 and the woman fled into the wilderness where God had prepared a place for her so that they might nourish her there for three and a half years. (REV 12:6)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘trefō’ have 8 different glosses: ‘having_been brought_up’, ‘is feeding’, ‘to_be_being nourished’, ‘she is_being nourished’, ‘they may_be nourishing’, ‘we fed’, ‘you_all nourished’, ‘nursed’.

Key: V=verb