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It is notμὴthat we do notοὐκhaveἔχομενthe rightἐξουσίανto eatφαγεῖνandκαὶdrink,πεῖνis it?
1 Corinthians 9:4
Study it in the app“It is not that we do not have the right to eat and drink, is it?”
With the Greek beneath
1 Corinthians 9:4, word by word
- haveἔχομενechomen
have
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echomen” appears- the rightἐξουσίανexousian
right
The freedom to do something, which one is entitled to.
Where else “exousian” appears- to eatφαγεῖνphagein
eat
Eat.
Where else “phagein” appears- drinkπεῖνpein
drink
To take water, wine or another liquid by mouth.
Where else “pein” appears
The context
3This is my defense to those who examine me:
4 · This verse (above)
5It is not that we do not have the right to take along a sister as a wife, as also the other apostles do, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas, is it?