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Word

νή

nḗ · G3513 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. on the basis of, by virtue of

    A marker of the basis for an oath or strong declaration

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 15:31 I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

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
On the basis of, by virtue of89.14
Affirming his daily peril for the gospel, 1 Corinthians 15:31 states “I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily,” where the particle rendered “by” (the boasting) introduces the ground on which Paul makes his affirmation.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon a particle employed in affirmations and oaths (common in Attic), and joined to an…
a particle employed in affirmations and oaths (common in Attic), and joined to an accusative of the person (for the most part, a divinity) or of the thing affirmed or sworn by (Buttmann, § 149, 17); by (Latinper, German bei): 1 Cor 15:31 (Gen 42:15f).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Basis1 occurrence

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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