Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #97899

OSHB Deu 32:17 אֱלֹהַ (ʼₑloah) Strongs=433 Lemma=‘אֱלֹוהַּ’
contextual word gloss=‘[are]_God’ word gloss=‘god’
Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Person=God

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Only use of identical word form ‘אֱלֹהַ’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אֱלֹהַ’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[are]_God’.

DEU 32:17 contextual word gloss=‘[are]_God’ word gloss=‘god’ OSHB DEU 32:17 word 4

OET-LV: 17 They _sacrificed to_demons which_not are_god gods which_not they_had _known _them new_gods which_from_near they _had _come which_not they_had _known _about _them ancestors _of_your(pl). (DEU_32:17)

OET-RV: 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God—
⇔ gods they hadn’t known.
⇔ New ones that had come recently,
⇔ ≈ that your ancestor had never served. (DEU 32:17)