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Koine Greek wordlink #112135

SR GNT Rom 13:8 ὀφείλετε (ofeilete) ‘to no_one nothing be owing except one_another to_be loving’ Strongs=37840 Lemma=ofeilō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=present voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Refers to Word #111919

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Only use of identical word form ὀφείλετε (V-MPA2..P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὀφείλετε’ (V-MPA2..P) is always and only glossed as ‘be owing’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ofeilō’ have 18 different glosses: ‘are ought’, ‘are owing’, ‘be owing’, ‘being owed’, ‘is owing’, ‘is owing you’, ‘was ought’, ‘was owing’, ‘he was ought’, ‘he ought’, ‘it ought’, ‘they are ought’, ‘we were ought’, ‘we ought’, ‘you are owing’, ‘you_all were ought’, ‘ought’, ‘owing’.

Greek words (9) other than ὀφείλετε (V-MPA2..P) with a gloss related to ‘owing’

MAT 18:28 ὤφειλεν (ōfeilen) V-IIA3..S ‘fellow-slaves of him who was owing to him a hundred daʸnarion_coins’ SR GNT Mat 18:28 word 12

MAT 18:28 ὀφείλεις (ofeileis) V-IPA2..S ‘give_back if anything you are owing’ SR GNT Mat 18:28 word 27

MAT 23:16 ὀφείλει (ofeilei) V-IPA3..S ‘gold of the temple is owing’ SR GNT Mat 23:16 word 25

MAT 23:18 ὀφείλει (ofeilei) V-IPA3..S ‘gift on it is owing’ SR GNT Mat 23:18 word 21

LUKE 7:41 ὤφειλεν (ōfeilen) V-IIA3..S ‘certain the one was owing daʸnarion_coins five_hundred the’ SR GNT Luke 7:41 word 8

LUKE 11:4 ὀφείλοντι (ofeilonti) V-PPA.DMS ‘ourselves we are forgiving to everyone owing to us and not’ SR GNT Luke 11:4 word 20

LUKE 16:5 ὀφείλεις (ofeileis) V-IPA2..S ‘to the first how_much you are owing to the master of me’ SR GNT Luke 16:5 word 16

LUKE 16:7 ὀφείλεις (ofeileis) V-IPA2..S ‘you and how_much are owing he and said’ SR GNT Luke 16:7 word 8

PHM 1:18 ὀφείλει (ofeilei) V-IPA3..S ‘he did_wrong to you or is owing you this to me be imputing’ SR GNT Phm 1:18 word 7

Key: V=verb IIA3..S=indicative,imperfect,active,3rd person singular IPA2..S=indicative,present,active,2nd person singular IPA3..S=indicative,present,active,3rd person singular MPA2..P=imperative,present,active,2nd person plural PPA.DMS=participle,present,active,dative,masculine,singular