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Koine Greek wordlink #139189

SR GNT 1Tim 6:4 ζητήσεις (zaʸtaʸseis) ‘but obsessing about debates and quibbles_about_words out_of’ Strongs=22140 Lemma=zētēsis
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Referred to from Word #139193

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ζητήσεις (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

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

2Tim 2:23 ‘foolish and uneducated debates be refusing having known that’ SR GNT 2Tim 2:23 word 6

Tit 3:9 ‘foolish but debates and genealogies and’ SR GNT Tit 3:9 word 3

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘zētēsis’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a debate’, ‘debate’, ‘debates’.

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