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Luke 2:36 (AV)
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
of the tribe of Aser:
she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Luke 2:37 (AV)
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,
which departed not from the temple,
but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Corruption versions
NET - She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years.
1 tn Grk “living with her husband for seven years from her virginity and she was a widow for eighty four years.” The chronology of the eighty-four years is unclear, since the final phrase could mean “she was widowed until the age of eighty-four” (so BDAG 423 s.v. ἕως 1.b.α). However, the more natural way to take the syntax is as a reference to the length of her widowhood, the subject of the clause, in which case Anna was about 105 years old (so D. L. Bock, Luke [BECNT], 1:251-52; I. H. Marshall, Luke, [NIGTC], 123-24).
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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
of the tribe of Aser:
she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Luke 2:37 (AV)
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,
which departed not from the temple,
but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Corruption versions
NET - She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years.
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1 tn Grk “living with her husband for seven years from her virginity and she was a widow for eighty four years.” The chronology of the eighty-four years is unclear, since the final phrase could mean “she was widowed until the age of eighty-four” (so BDAG 423 s.v. ἕως 1.b.α). However, the more natural way to take the syntax is as a reference to the length of her widowhood, the subject of the clause, in which case Anna was about 105 years old (so D. L. Bock, Luke [BECNT], 1:251-52; I. H. Marshall, Luke, [NIGTC], 123-24).
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