Philippians 2:6

Greek
ὃςplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὅς, ἥ, ὅ

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Meaning:

* Who * Which * What

The relative pronoun that connects a relative clause to a main clause, referring back to a noun or pronoun (called the antecedent).

It is distinct from ὅτι (“that,” introducing indirect speech) and from ὅς as an interrogative in older Greek (meaning
ἐνplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigἐν

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Preposition meaning “in”.
μορφῇ θεοῦplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigθεὸς

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Masculine noun meaning:

* A god or goddess * God
ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ, ἡ, τό

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Meaning:

* The

The definite article.

Forms

Singular Case Masculine Feminine Neuter Nominative ὁ ἡ τό Genitive τοῦ τῆς τοῦ Dative τῷ τῇ
εἶναιplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigεἰμί

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εἰμί is the first person singular verb for “to be” (εἶναι [the infinitive form] = “to be”).

It an irregular verb, and, like English, changes significantly between person and tense. For example εἰμί is the word for am and ἦν is the word for was, e.g.
ἴσα θεῷ,plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigθεὸς

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Masculine noun meaning:

* A god or goddess * God
ESV
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
NIV
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
NLT
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
KJV
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Philippians 2:5 ← Philippians 2:6 → Philippians 2:7

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