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Koine Greek wordlink #111151

SR GNT Rom 13:4 πράσσοντι (prassonti) ‘severe_anger to the one evil doing’ Strongs=42380 Lemma=prassō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=dative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form πράσσοντι (V-PPA·DMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πράσσοντι’ (V-PPA·DMS) is always and only glossed as ‘doing’.

Rom 13:4 ‘severe_anger to the one evil doing’ SR GNT Rom 13:4 word 34

OET-LV: 4 For/Because of_god the_servant he _is to _you for the good. But if the evil you _may _be _practicing, be _fearing, because/for not vainly the sword he _is _bearing, For/Because of_god a_servant he _is, an_avenging for severe _anger to _the one the evil doing. (ROM_13:4)

OET-RV: 4 because they’re God’s servants for your good. But if you’re doing evil, then you should rightly be afraid because the authorities aren’t armed without reason—they’re God’s servants to dispense severe anger to those doing evil. (ROM 13:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prassō’ have 24 different glosses: ‘are doing’, ‘be collecting’, ‘be practicing’, ‘having done’, ‘having practiced’, ‘having_been done’, ‘is doing’, ‘to do’, ‘to_be doing’, ‘to_have done’, ‘I am doing’, ‘I have done’, ‘I collected’, ‘he did’, ‘they practiced’, ‘we did’, ‘you are doing’, ‘you may do’, ‘you may_be practicing’, ‘you_all will_be doing’, ‘you_all did’, ‘did’, ‘doing’, ‘practicing’.

Key: V=verb