Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #863

SR GNT Mat 2:18 Ῥαχήλ (Ɽaⱪaʸl) ‘and mourning great Ɽaⱪaʸl/(Rāḩēl) weeping for the children’ Strongs=44780 Lemma=raχēl^*
Word role=proper noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Person=Rachel Year=-4 TimeSeries=Herod_slays_male_children Referred to from Word #867 Referred to from Word #870 Referred to from Word #872

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Only use of identical word form Ῥαχήλ (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ῥαχήλ’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘Ɽaⱪaʸl/(Rāḩēl)’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Ῥαχήλ’ (N-NFS) was always and only glossed as ‘Rachel’).

Mat 2:18 ‘and mourning great Ɽaⱪaʸl/(Rāḩēl) weeping for the children’ SR GNT Mat 2:18 word 11

OET-LV: 18 A_voice in Ɽama/(Rāmāh) was _heard, weeping and great mourning, Ɽaⱪaʸl/(Rāḩēl) weeping for _the children of _her, and was_ not _wanting to _be _comforted, because they _are not. (MAT_2:18)

OET-RV: 18 The sound of great weeping and mourning was heard in Ramah;
¶ 
⇔ Rachel weeping for her children, and she didn’t want to be comforted,
⇔ because her children were no more. (MAT 2:18)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘raχēl’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular