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Koine Greek wordlink #108735

SR GNT Rom 8:20 ματαιότητι (mataiotaʸti) ‘to the for uselessness the creation was subjected’ Strongs=31530 Lemma=mataiotēs
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ματαιότητι (N-DFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ματαιότητι’ (N-DFS) has 2 different glosses: ‘the uselessness’, ‘uselessness’.

Eph 4:17 ‘pagans is walking in the uselessness of the mind of them’ SR GNT Eph 4:17 word 18

OET-LV: 17 Therefore I _am _saying this and I _am _testifying in the_master, you _all to _be _walking no _longer as also the pagans is _walking in the_uselessness of _the mind of _them. (EPH_4:17)

OET-RV: 17 So I’ll say this with Yahweh’s direction: you all are no longer to walk like unbelieving pagans who trust in their own futile thinking. (EPH 4:17)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘mataiotēs’ have 3 different glosses: ‘the uselessness’, ‘of uselessness’, ‘uselessness’.

Greek words (1) other than ματαιότητι (N-DFS) with a gloss related to ‘uselessness’

2 PET 2:18 ματαιότητος (mataiotaʸtos) N-GFS ‘arrogant messages for of uselessness speaking they are enticing with’ SR GNT 2 Pet 2:18 word 3

OET-LV: 18 For/Because speaking arrogant messages of _uselessness, they _are _enticing with the_lusts of_the_flesh to _wantonness, the ones slightly escaping _from the ones being _conducted in deception, (PE2_2:18)

OET-RV: 18 because they speak vane and inflated words to entice people to fleshly lusts. Those who have just escaped from the errors of their living (PE2 2:18)

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