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Koine Greek wordlink #139866

SR GNT 2Tim 2:4 ἐμπλέκεται (empleketai) ‘no_one soldiering is_being entangled with the of living affairs’ Strongs=17070 Lemma=emplekō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=passive person=3rd number=singular

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Only use of identical word form ἐμπλέκεται (V-IPP3..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐμπλέκεται’ (V-IPP3..S) is always and only glossed as ‘is_being entangled’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘emplekō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘having_been entangled’, ‘is_being entangled’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐμπλέκεται (V-IPP3..S) with a gloss related to ‘entangled’

GAL 5:1 ἐνέχεσθε (eneⱪesthe) V-MPP2..P Lemma=eneχō ‘again in a yoke of slavery be_being entangled’ SR GNT Gal 5:1 word 16

2PET 2:20 ἐμπλακέντες (emplakentes) V-PAP.NMP ‘in these things and again having_been entangled they have been_overcome has become to them’ SR GNT 2Pet 2:20 word 20

Key: V=verb IPP3..S=indicative,present,passive,3rd person singular MPP2..P=imperative,present,passive,2nd person plural PAP.NMP=participle,aorist,passive,nominative,masculine,plural