Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #336257

OSHB Eze 8:14 מְבַכּוֹת (məⱱakkōt) Strongs=1058 Lemma=‘בָּכָה’
contextual word gloss=‘[they_were]_bewailing’ word gloss=‘weeping’
Morphology=Vprfpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute

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Only use of identical word form ‘מְבַכּוֹת’ (Morphology=Vprfpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מְבַכּוֹת’ (Morphology=Vprfpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[they_were]_bewailing’.

EZE 8:14 contextual word gloss=‘[they_were]_bewailing’ word gloss=‘weeping’ OSHB EZE 8:14 word 15

OET-LV: 14 And_he/it _brought DOM_me to the _entrance _of the _gate _of the _house _of YHWH which was_to to_the_north and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE there the_women were_sitting they_were_bewailing DOM (the)_Tammūz. (EZE_8:14)

OET-RV: 14 and he took me to the gate at the northern entrance of Yahweh’s temple, and oh dear—there were some women sitting there mourning for the Babylonian Tammuz deity. (EZE 8:14)