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Koine Greek wordlink #138028

SR GNT 1 Tim 5:16 ἐπαρκέσῃ (eparkesaʸ) ‘to the really widows it may assist’ Strongs=18840 Lemma=eparkeō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=65 AD Refers to Word #138023

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Only use of identical word form ἐπαρκέσῃ (V-SAA3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπαρκέσῃ’ (V-SAA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘it may assist’.

1 Tim 5:16 ‘to the really widows it may assist’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:16 word 20

OET-LV: 16 If any believing woman is _having widows, he _let _be _assisting to _them, and not let _be _being _weighed _down the assembly, in _order _that it _may _assist to _the really widows. (TI1_5:16)

OET-RV: 16 If any believing woman has widowed relatives, they should continue to help them and not burden the assembly, so then the assembly can assist the really needy widows. (TI1 5:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘eparkeō’ have 3 different glosses: ‘he let_be assisting’, ‘it may assist’, ‘she assisted’.

Key: V=verb