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Hebrew wordlink #230506

OSHB Est 5:13 שֹׁוֶה (shoveh) Strongs=7737 a Lemma=‘שָׁוָה’
contextual word gloss=‘[is]_adequate’ word gloss=‘satisfy’
Morphology=Vqrmsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-453

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Other uses (2) of identical word form שֹׁוֶה (Morphology=Vqrmsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שֹׁוֶה’ (Morphology=Vqrmsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘[is]_adequate’, ‘[is]_appropriate’, ‘[is]_equal’.

EST 3:8 contextual word gloss=‘[is]_appropriate’ word gloss=‘appropriate’ OSHB EST 3:8 word 26

OET-LV: 8 and_ Haman _he/it _said to/for_the _king ʼAḩashvērōsh there_it_is a _people one scattered and_separated among the_peoples in_all _of the _provinces _of your _kingdom _of_of and_their _of_laws are_differing from_all people and_DOM the _laws _of the_king not_they are_doing and_for_king not is_appropriate to_leave_them. (EST_3:8)

OET-RV: 8 Then Haman went to King Ahasuerus and said, “Your Majesty, there is a certain group of people who live among the other peoples in every province of your empire. They have their own set of laws, so they don’t obey your laws. It’s not good for you to allow them to continue to live in your empire. (EST 3:8)

EST 7:4 contextual word gloss=‘[is]_equal’ word gloss=‘compensate’ OSHB EST 7:4 word 16

OET-LV: 4 If/because we _have _been _sold I and_my _of_people to_annihilate to_kill and_to_destroy and_if to_male _slaves and_to_female _slaves we _had _been _sold I _kept _quiet if/because not the_distress is_equal for_the _injury _of the _king. (EST_7:4)

OET-RV: 4 because someone has turned me and my people over to our enemies and they’re going to completely destroy us. If someone had just sold the men and even the women to be slaves, I wouldn’t have said anything, because that wouldn’t have been important enough to bother your majesty with.” (EST 7:4)