Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #138897

SR GNT 2 Tim 2:2 παράθου (parathou) ‘many witnesses these entrust to faithful people who’ Strongs=39080 Lemma=paratithēmi
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=middle person=2nd number=singular
Year=66 AD Refers to Word #138878

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Only use of identical word form παράθου (V-MAM2··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘παράθου’ (V-MAM2··S) is always and only glossed as ‘entrust’.

2 Tim 2:2 ‘many witnesses these entrust to faithful people who’ SR GNT 2 Tim 2:2 word 10

OET-LV: 2 And the things you _heard from me through many witnesses, entrust these to _faithful people who will _be worthy to _teach others also. (TI2_2:2)

OET-RV: 2 along with everything you heard from me through many witnesses. Entrust those things to faithful people who will also be capable of teaching others. (TI2 2:2)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘paratithēmi’ have 13 different glosses: ‘being set_before’, ‘to set_before’, ‘to_be setting_before them’, ‘I am entrusting’, ‘I will_be setting_before’, ‘he set_before’, ‘them let_be entrusting’, ‘they may_be setting_before’, ‘they may_be setting_before them’, ‘they entrusted’, ‘they set_before it’, ‘entrust’, ‘setting_before’.

Key: V=verb