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Profane (bebēlos). Trodden under foot, unhallowed (1Ti 1:9).
For one mess of meat (anti brōseōs mias). Idea of exchange, “for one act of eating” (1Co 8:4).
Sold (apedeto). Second aorist middle indicative from Gen 25:31, Gen 25:33, and with irregular form for apedoto (regular mi form).
His own birthright (ta prōtotokia heautou). From Genesis also and in Philo, only here in N.T. From prōtotokos (first born, Heb 1:6).