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Koine Greek wordlink #139071

SR GNT 2 Tim 2:16 περιΐστασο (periistaso) ‘and profane empty_babblings be avoiding on more for’ Strongs=40260 Lemma=periistēmi
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=present voice=middle person=2nd number=singular
Year=66 AD Refers to Word #138878

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Other uses (1) of identical word form περιΐστασο (V-MPM2··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘περιΐστασο’ (V-MPM2··S) is always and only glossed as ‘be avoiding’.

Tit 3:9 ‘and quarrels legal be avoiding they are for unprofitable’ SR GNT Tit 3:9 word 12

OET-LV: 9 But be _avoiding foolish debates, and genealogies, and strifes, and legal quarrels, they _are for unprofitable and useless. (TIT_3:9)

OET-RV: 9 But avoid foolish debates, arguments about ancestry, other strife, and quarrels about God’s commands because they all achieve nothing and waste time. (TIT 3:9)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘periistēmi’ have 2 different glosses: ‘be avoiding’, ‘stood_around’.

Greek words (2) other than περιΐστασο (V-MPM2··S) with a gloss related to ‘avoiding’

2 COR 8:20 στελλόμενοι (stellomenoi) V-PPM·NMP Lemma=stellō ‘avoiding this lest anyone’ SR GNT 2 Cor 8:20 word 1

OET-LV: 20 avoiding this, lest anyone us may _blemish, in the exuberance this which being _served by us, (CO2_8:20)

OET-RV: 20 We want to avoid the possibility of being criticised in our excitement in serving this way, (CO2 8:20)

2 TH 3:6 στέλλεσθαι (stellesthai) V-NPM···· Lemma=stellō ‘of us Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen_one/messiah to_be avoiding you_all from every’ SR GNT 2 Th 3:6 word 12

OET-LV: 6 And we _are _commanding to _you _all, brothers, in the_name of _the master of _us, Yaʸsous chosen _one /messiah, to _be _avoiding you _all from every brother lazily walking, and not according _to the tradition which they _received from us. (TH2_3:6)

OET-RV: 6 Brothers and sisters, we’re instructing you to avoid those who are only lazily living out their faith, and not following the practices that they were taught by us. (TH2 3:6)

Key: V=verb