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Koine Greek wordlink #109173

SR GNT Rom 9:4 διαθῆκαι (diathaʸkai) ‘glory and the covenants and the lawgiving’ Strongs=12420 Lemma=diathēkē
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form διαθῆκαι (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘διαθῆκαι’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘covenants’.

Gal 4:24 ‘for are two covenants one on_one_hand from’ SR GNT Gal 4:24 word 9

OET-LV: 24 Which things is being _allegorized, because/for these are two covenants: one on _one _hand from Mount Sina/(Şīnay) to bearing slavery, which is Hagar/(Hāgār). (GAL_4:24)

OET-RV: 24 So if we use this as an illustration, there are two agreements: one is from Mt. Sinai which relates to Hagar and gives birth to enslaved people. (GAL 4:24)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘diathēkē’ have 7 different glosses: ‘a covenant’, ‘a covenant there_is’, ‘the covenant’, ‘of a covenant’, ‘of the covenant’, ‘covenant’, ‘covenants’.

Greek words (1) other than διαθῆκαι (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘covenants’

EPH 2:12 διαθηκῶν (diathaʸkōn) N-GFP ‘and strangers to the covenants of the promise hope’ SR GNT Eph 2:12 word 17

OET-LV: 12 that you _all _were the at _time that without chosen _one /messiah, having _been _estranged from _the citizenship of_ the _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl), and strangers to _the covenants of _the promise, not having hope, and godless in the world. (EPH_2:12)

OET-RV: 12 At that time you were separated from the citizens of Yisrael (Israel) and were strangers to the agreements involving God’s promise. You didn’t have any future hope as you lived in the world without knowing God. (EPH 2:12)

Key: N=noun GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural