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νή
G3513
G:PRT Greek

as surely as

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ne is a particle marking the speaker’s emphatic affirmation of the statement about dying every day.

The single attested use marks an emphatic affirmation within the speaker’s statement about dying every day.

Senses in use

  1. Particle of emphatic affirmation · dominant

    In 1 Corinthians 15:31, the form νὴ is tagged as a Particle and occurs with the speaker’s assertion about dying every day. The APB renders the surrounding statement as “I die every day,” while the translation does not separately identify the particle’s contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Corinthians 15:31, the APB presents the asserted statement “I die every day” without separately representing the particle; its exact English correspondence is therefore not isolated.

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