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Hebrew wordlink #188827

OSHB 1 Chr 4:21 שֵׁלָה (shēlāh) Strongs=7956 Lemma=‘שֵׁלָה’
contextual word gloss=‘of_Shelah’ word gloss=‘Shēlāh’
Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun
Person=Shelah Year=-1721

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Other uses (3) of identical word form שֵׁלָה (Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שֵׁלָה’ (Morphology=Np PoS=proper_noun) has 2 different glosses: ‘Shelah’, ‘of_Shelah’.

GEN 38:5 contextual word gloss=‘Shelah’ word gloss=‘Shēlāh’ OSHB GEN 38:5 word 8

OET-LV: 5 And_she/it _added again and_she/it _gave _birth a _son and_she/it _called/named DOM his/its_name Shēlāh and_it _was in_Kezib when_she_bore DOM_him/it. (GEN_38:5)

OET-RV: 5 Then she got pregnant yet again and gave birth to a third son, and she named him Shelah. (Yehudah was in Kezib when she Onan was born.) (GEN 38:5)

GEN 38:11 contextual word gloss=‘Shelah’ word gloss=‘Shēlāh’ OSHB GEN 38:11 word 11

OET-LV: 11 And_ Yəhūdāh/(Judah) _he/it _said to_Tāmār his/its_daughter-in-law dwell a _widow the _house _of your _father _of_of until he _will _grow _up Shēlāh son _of_my if/because he _said lest he _should _die also he like_his _of_brothers and_ Tāmār _she _went and_she _dwelt the _house _of her _father _of_of. (GEN_38:11)

OET-RV: 11 Then Yehudah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” This was because he’d said, “So that he doesn’t also die like his brothers!” So Tamar went and lived in the house of her father. (GEN 38:11)

GEN 38:14 contextual word gloss=‘Shelah’ word gloss=‘Shēlāh’ OSHB GEN 38:14 word 19

OET-LV: 14 And_she _removed the _clothes _of her _widowhood _of_of from_on_her and_she _covered with_veil and_she _wrapped _herself _up and_she _sat at_the _entrance _of Enaim which is_on the _road _of (of)_to_Timnāh if/because she _had _seen if/because _that he _had _grown _up Shēlāh and_she not she _had _been _given to_him/it to/for_(a)_woman. (GEN_38:14)

OET-RV: 14 So she changed out of her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself up. Then she sat at the entrance of Enaim which is on the road to Timnah. She was doing this because she had seen that Shelah had grown up, but she hadn’t been given to him as a wife. (GEN 38:14)