Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #28424

OSHB Exo 7:21 מֵתָה (mētāh) Strongs=4191 Lemma=‘מוּת’
contextual word gloss=‘it_died’ word gloss=‘died’
Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular
Year=-1491 TimeSeries=Exodus_from_Egypt

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Other uses (2) of identical word form מֵתָה (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מֵתָה’ (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) has 2 different glosses: ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.

GEN 35:18 contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘dying’ OSHB GEN 35:18 word 5

OET-LV: 18 And_he/it _was when_went _out life _of_her if/because she _died and_she/it _called/named his/its_name Ben- Oni and_his _of_father he _called to_him/it Binyāmīn. (GEN_35:18)

OET-RV: 18 But Rahel was dying, and as her spirit was leaving her, she named the baby ‘Ben’oni’ (which means ‘son of my sorrow’), but afterwards Yacob renamed him ‘Benyamin’ (which means ‘son of my right hand’). (GEN 35:18)

GEN 48:7 contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘died’ OSHB GEN 48:7 word 4

OET-LV: 7 And_I when_I_came from_Paddan she _died on_me Rāḩēl in_land of _Kənaˊan/(Canaan) on_journey at_yet a _distance _of land to_go ʼEfrātāh and_I_buried _her there on_the _journey _of ʼEfrāt that is_Bēyt- leḩem. (GEN_48:7)

OET-RV: 7 As for me, when I was coming into Canaan from Paddan, Rahel died beside on the way when we were still quite some distance from Efrath, and I buried her there beside the road of Efrath (which is Bethlehem).” (GEN 48:7)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מוּת’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘[am]_about_to_die’, ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.