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Koine Greek wordlink #109324

SR GNT Rom 9:12 ἐλάσσονι (elassoni) ‘greater will_be serving for the lessor’ Strongs=16400 Lemma=elassōn
Word role=substantive adjective case=dative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἐλάσσονι (S-DMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλάσσονι’ (S-DMS) is always and only glossed as ‘lessor’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐλάσσονι (S-DMS) with a gloss related to ‘lessor’

YHN 2:10 ἐλάσσω (elassō) A-AMS ‘whenever they may_be being_drunk the lessor you have kept the’ SR GNT Yhn 2:10 word 17

OET-LV: 10 and he _is _saying to _him: Every person is _presenting first the good wine, and the lessor whenever they _may _be _being _drunk, you have _kept the good wine until now. (JHN_2:10)

OET-RV: 10 and exclaimed, “Most people supply the best wine at the beginning of the reception, and the cheaper stuff when people are a bit tipsy. But you’ve kept the best wine until last!” (JHN 2:10)

1 TIM 5:9 ἔλαττον (elatton) S-ANS Lemma=elattōn ‘a widow let_be_being enrolled not lessor than years sixty having become’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:9 word 4

OET-LV: 9 ˓Let˒_ a_widow _be _being _enrolled having _become not lessor than sixty years, the_wife of _one husband, (TI1_5:9)

OET-RV: 9 The assembly should enrol a widow if she’s at least sixty years old and was the wife of a single husband. (TI1 5:9)

HEB 7:7 ἔλαττον (elatton) S-NNS Lemma=elattōn ‘from all controversy the lessor by the better’ SR GNT Heb 7:7 word 6

OET-LV: 7 But apart _from from _all controversy, the lessor by the better is _being _blessed. (HEB_7:7)

OET-RV: 7 There’s no doubt that it’s the lessor person that gets blessed by someone greater. (HEB 7:7)

Key: A=adjective S=substantive adjective AMS=accusative,masculine,singular ANS=accusative,neuter,singular DMS=dative,masculine,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular