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Koine Greek wordlink #163528

SR GNT Rev 16:21 πληγῆς (plaʸgaʸs) ‘god for the plague of the hail because’ Strongs=41270 Lemma=plēgē
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form πληγῆς (N-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πληγῆς’ (N-GFS) is always and only glossed as ‘plague’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘plēgē’ have 7 different glosses: ‘of beatings’, ‘beatings’, ‘blows’, ‘plague’, ‘plagues’, ‘wound’, ‘wounds’.

Greek words (2) other than πληγῆς (N-GFS) with a gloss related to ‘plague’

REV 11:6 πληγῇ (plaʸgaʸ) N-DFS ‘earth with every plague as_often_as they may want’ SR GNT Rev 11:6 word 41

OET-LV: 6 These are _having the power to _shut the sky, in _order _that no rain may _be _raining in _the days of _the prophecy of _them, and power they _are _having over the waters, to _be _turning them into blood, and to _strike the earth with every plague, as _often _as if they _may _want. (REV_11:6)

OET-RV: 6 Those witnesses have the power to stop the rain so that it doesn’t rain while they’re speaking out, and they have power to turn rivers and lakes into blood, and to damage the earth with every type of plague just as often as they want. (REV 11:6)

REV 16:21 πληγή (plaʸgaʸ) N-NFS ‘great is the plague of it exceedingly’ SR GNT Rev 16:21 word 28

OET-LV: 21 And a_hail great, about a_talanton_of _silver_weight, is _coming _down out _of the sky on the people, and slandered the people the god, because/for the plague of _the hail, because great is the plague of _it exceedingly. (REV_16:21)

OET-RV: 21 Then thirty kilogram hailstones dropped onto people from the sky. The people swore at God because of the hail, because it was incredibly terrible! (REV 16:21)

Key: N=noun DFS=dative,feminine,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular