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Koine Greek wordlink #163674

SR GNT Rev 17:5 Μυστήριον (Mustaʸrion) ‘of her was a name having_been written Mystery Babulōn/(Bāⱱel?) the Great’ Strongs=34660 Lemma=mustērion
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form Μυστήριον (N-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Μυστήριον’ (N-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘Mystery’.

Rev 17:5 ‘of her was a name having_been written Mystery Babulōn/(Bāⱱel?) the Great’ SR GNT Rev 17:5 word 8

OET-LV: 5 and on the forehead of _her was a_name having _been _written: Mystery Babulōn/(Bāⱱel? ) the great, the mother of _the prostitutes, and of _the abominations of _the earth. (REV_17:5)

OET-RV: 5 and a name was written on her forehead. The name was a mystery: ‘Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and the Abominations of the Earth.’ (REV 17:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘mustērion’ have 7 different glosses: ‘a mystery’, ‘of the mysteries’, ‘of the mystery’, ‘of mystery’, ‘Mystery’, ‘mysteries’, ‘mystery’.

Key: N=noun NNS=nominative,neuter,singular