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Koine Greek wordlink #135638

SR GNT 1Th 2:8 ψυχάς (psuⱪas) ‘also the of ourselves lives because beloved to us’ Strongs=55900 Lemma=psuχē
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural

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Only use of identical word form ψυχάς (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ψυχάς’ (N-AFP) is always and only glossed as ‘lives’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘psuχē’ have 15 different glosses: ‘a soul’, ‘the heart’, ‘the soul’, ‘your heart’, ‘in his soul’, ‘of the soul’, ‘of life’, ‘of soul’, ‘of souls’, ‘heart’, ‘hearts’, ‘life’, ‘lives’, ‘soul’, ‘souls’.

Greek words (4) other than ψυχάς (N-AFP) with a gloss related to ‘lives’

LUKE 21:19 ψυχὰς (psuⱪas) N-AFP ‘of you_all you_all will_be acquiring the lives of you_all’ SR GNT Luke 21:19 word 8

ACTs 15:26 ψυχὰς (psuⱪas) N-AFP ‘men having given_over the lives of them for the’ SR GNT Acts 15:26 word 6

ACTs 27:10 ψυχῶν (psuⱪōn) N-GFP ‘but also the lives of us to_be going going_to_be’ SR GNT Acts 27:10 word 23

1YHN 3:16 ψυχὰς (psuⱪas) N-AFP ‘our brothers our lives to lay’ SR GNT 1Yhn 3:16 word 21

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural GFP=genitive,feminine,plural