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ἑτεροζυγέω

heterozygéō · G2086 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to be mismatched, to be wrongly matched

    To be wrongly or poorly matched in an association

    Examples

    2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness?

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To be mismatched, to be wrongly matched34.9
In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul commands, “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together,” using this verb for being wrongly joined together with an incompatible partner.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἕτερος héteros · G2087 · different, differently, other than · 97×ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω heterodidaskaléō · G2085 · to teach a different doctrine, to teach something different · 2×ἑτερόγλωσσος heteróglōssos · G2084 · speaking in a strange language, in a strange language · 1×ἑτεροζυγέωheterozygéō · G2086ἑτέρως hetérōs · G2088 · different, differently, other than · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἑτεροζύγῳ; (ἑτερόζυγος yoked with a different yoke; used in Lev 19:19 of the union of…
ἑτεροζύγῳ; (ἑτερόζυγος yoked with a different yoke; used in Lev 19:19 of the union of beasts of different kinds, e. g. an ox and an ass), to come under an unequal or different yoke (Beza,impari jugo copulor), to be unequally yoked: τίνι (on the dative see Winers Grammar, § 31, 10 N. 4; Buttmann, § 133, 8), tropically, to have fellowship with one who is not an equal: 2 Cor 6:14, where the apostle is forbidding Christians to have contact with idolaters.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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