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Hebrew wordlink #30229

OSHB Exo 10:22 חֹשֶׁךְ (ḩoshek) Strongs=2822 Lemma=‘חֹשֶׁךְ’
contextual word gloss=‘darkness_of’ word gloss=‘darkness_of’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-1491 TimeSeries=Exodus_from_Egypt

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Only use of identical word form ‘חֹשֶׁךְ’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘חֹשֶׁךְ’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) is always and only glossed as ‘darkness_of’.

EXO 10:22 contextual word gloss=‘darkness_of’ word gloss=‘darkness_of’ OSHB EXO 10:22 word 8

OET-LV: 22 And_ Mosheh _he _stretched _out DOM his/its_hand to the_heavens and_he/it _was darkness _of gloom in_all the _land _of Miʦrayim three _of days. (EXO_10:22)

OET-RV: 22 So Mosheh stretched his hand out towards the sky, and a thick darkness was in all Egypt for three days. (EXO 10:22)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘חֹשֶׁךְ’’ have 4 different glosses: ‘[be]_darkness’, ‘[will_be]_darkness’, ‘darkness’, ‘darkness_of’.