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Koine Greek wordlink #138918

SR GNT 2 Tim 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
Year=66 AD

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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

OET-LV: 5 The in _freedom, chosen _one /messiah freed us, therefore be _standing _firm, and not be _being _entangled again in_a_yoke of _slavery. (GAL_5:1)

OET-RV: 5 The messiah has freed us so we can have freedom, so stand firm and don’t get entangled again in the burden of slavery. (GAL 5:1)

2 PET 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 2 Pet 2:20 word 20

OET-LV: 20 For/Because if having _escaped _from the defilements of _the world, in the_knowledge of _the master and saviour Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen _one /messiah, and having_ again _˓been˒_entangled in _these things they _have _been _overcome, the last has _become to _them worse than the first. (PE2_2:20)

OET-RV: 20 Because if they have escaped the defilements of the world by their knowledge of our master and saviour Yeshua Messiah and yet get entangled again, they are defeated and have ended up worse off than at the beginning. (PE2 2:20)

Key: V=verb