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Hebrew wordlink #88848

OSHB Deu 13:16 הַחֲרֵם (haḩₐrēm) Strongs=2763 a Lemma=‘חָרַם’
contextual word gloss=‘totally_destroy’ word gloss=‘utterly_destroying’
Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute
Year=-1451

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Other uses (3) of identical word form הַחֲרֵם (Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הַחֲרֵם’ (Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘certainly_(totally_destroy)’, ‘totally_destroy’, ‘we_totally_destroyed’.

DEU 3:6 contextual word gloss=‘we_totally_destroyed’ word gloss=‘destroying’ OSHB DEU 3:6 word 8

OET-LV: 6 And_we _totally _destroyed them just_as we _had _done to_Şīḩōn the _king _of Ḩeshbōn we _totally _destroyed every _of city men the_women and_the _little_one[s]. (DEU_3:6)

OET-RV: 6 We completely destroyed them like we’d done to Heshbon’s King Sihon—men, women, and children, (DEU 3:6)

DEU 7:2 contextual word gloss=‘certainly_(totally_destroy)’ word gloss=‘to_destroy’ OSHB DEU 7:2 word 6

OET-LV: 2 And_he_will _deliver _them _up YHWH god _of_your to_your_face and_you_will _defeat _them certainly _(totally _destroy) you _will _totally _destroy DOM_them not you _will _make to/for_them a _covenant and_not you_will _show _favour _to _them. (DEU_7:2)

OET-RV: 2 When your god Yahweh enables you to defeat them, you must kill them all. You must make no agreement with them, and you must not act mercifully toward them. (DEU 7:2)

DEU 20:17 contextual word gloss=‘certainly_(totally_destroy)’ word gloss=‘to_destroy’ OSHB DEU 20:17 word 2

OET-LV: 17 If/because certainly _(totally _destroy) you_will _totally _destroy _them the_Ḩittiy[s] and_the_ʼAmorī[s] the_Kənaˊₐnī and_the_Pərizzī[s] the_Ḩiūī and_the_Yəⱱūşī/(Jebusite)[s] just_as he_commanded _you YHWH god _of_your. (DEU_20:17)

OET-RV: 17 because you must complete eliminate the Hittes, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Yevusites. Do that just as your god Yahweh commanded you (DEU 20:17)