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Koine Greek wordlink #139213

SR GNT 2 Tim 2:23 ζητήσεις (zaʸtaʸseis) ‘foolish and uneducated debates be refusing having known that’ Strongs=22140 Lemma=zētēsis
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=66 AD Referred to from Word #139217

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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’.

1 Tim 6:4 ‘but obsessing about debates and quibbles_about_words out_of’ SR GNT 1 Tim 6:4 word 7

OET-LV: 4 he _has _been _conceited knowing nothing, but obsessing about debates and quibbles _about _messages, out _of which is _becoming envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions, (TI1_6:4)

OET-RV: 4 that person is conceited. They don’t know anything, but instead obsess about debates and quibble about messages, and this leads to strife, slander, evil suspicions, (TI1 6:4)

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

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) ‘zētēsis’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a debate’, ‘debate’, ‘debates’.

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