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Koine Greek wordlink #158216

SR GNT Rev 6:8 Θάνατος (Thanatos) ‘it the name to him was Death and Haidaʸs was following’ Strongs=22880 Lemma=thanatos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Only use of identical word form Θάνατος (N-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Θάνατος’ (N-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘Death’.

Rev 6:8 ‘it the name to him was Death and Haidaʸs was following’ SR GNT Rev 6:8 word 16

OET-LV: 8 And I _looked, and see, a_horse green, and the one sitting on it, the_name to _him was Death, and the Haidaʸs was _following with him, and was _given to _them authority over the fourth of _the earth, to _kill _off with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild _beasts of _the earth. (REV_6:8)

OET-RV: 8 Then I looked, and wow, there was a green horse. The one sitting on it was named ‘Death’, and Hades was sitting behind him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth: to execute people with the sword, with famine, with death, and with the wild animals on the earth. (REV 6:8)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘thanatos’ have 12 different glosses: ‘a death’, ‘the death’, ‘by death’, ‘for death’, ‘in death’, ‘of death’, ‘of death is’, ‘to death’, ‘Death’, ‘death’, ‘death is’, ‘deaths’.

Key: N=noun NMS=nominative,masculine,singular