Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #134658

SR GNT 1 Th 2:7 τροφός (trofos) ‘the midst of you_all as a nursing_mother may_be cherishing the of herself’ Strongs=51620 Lemma=trofos^*
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=54 AD Referred to from Word #134661

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Only use of identical word form τροφός (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τροφός’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘a nursing_mother’.

1 Th 2:7 ‘the midst of you_all as a nursing_mother may_be cherishing the of herself’ SR GNT 1 Th 2:7 word 18

OET-LV: 7 being _able in burden to _be, as of_chosen _one /messiah ambassadors. But we _were _become infants in the_midst of _you _all, as if a_nursing _mother may _be _cherishing the of _herself children. (TH1_2:7)

OET-RV: 7 even though we could request support as ambassadors of Messiah. But we became unsophisticated among you, just like children, or like a breast-feeding mother who cherishes her own children. (TH1 2:7)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘trofos’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular