balim
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Verb
to entreat, persuade
- Pool daa ti nya Masidɔnia do’ so ʒii yuŋ ka o ʒɛya m-balindi ŋun’ Pool yɛra, “Kam’ Masidɔnia na ti sɔŋ ti!” Paul saw a Macedonian in a vision in the night, and he was standing there begging Paul Come to Macedonia and help us! [ACT 16:9]
- o balim ti yɛli, “Yi yi zahim ma n-nya ka n nyɛla ŋun ʒe yim n suhu ni ni ti Duuma, yin’ kamiya na ti be n yiŋa.” she entreated us If you have tested me and seen that I am someone who is sincere in her heart towards our Lord, come and stay in my house. [ACT 16:15]
- Colloc: nam1 balimbu ‘paying courtesies to the chief by drummers or others; reciting great deeds of the chiefs’.