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Hebrew wordlink #218180

OSHB Ezra 3:6 הֵחֵלּוּ (hēḩēllū) Strongs=2490 c Lemma=‘חָלַל’
contextual word gloss=‘they_began’ word gloss=‘began’
Morphology=Vhp3cp PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural

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Other uses (6) of identical word form הֵחֵלּוּ (Morphology=Vhp3cp PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הֵחֵלּוּ’ (Morphology=Vhp3cp PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) has 3 different glosses: ‘[when]_they_began’, ‘they_began’, ‘they_had_begun’.

1 SAM 3:2 contextual word gloss=‘they_began’ word gloss=‘begun’ OSHB 1 SAM 3:2 word 8

OET-LV: 2 and_he/it _was in _the_day (the)_that and_ˊĒlī was_lying in_his _of_place and_his _of_eyes they _began dim not he _was _able to_see. (SA1_3:2)

OET-RV: 2 By that time, Eli’s sight was very poor—he could barely see. One night when he was sleeping in his place, (SA1 3:2)

2 CHR 20:22 contextual word gloss=‘[when]_they_began’ word gloss=‘began’ OSHB 2 CHR 20:22 word 2

OET-LV: 22 And_at_the_time when_they _began with_a _shout _of _joy and_praise YHWH he _set ambushers on the _people _of ˊAmmōn Mōʼāⱱ and_the _mountain _of Sēˊīr the_(ones _who)_went to_Yəhūdāh/(Judah) and_they _were _defeated. (CH2_20:22)

OET-RV: 22 As they began to sing and praise Yahweh, he sent ambushers against the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites who were attacking Yehudah, and they were defeated. (CH2 20:22)

2 CHR 31:7 contextual word gloss=‘they_began’ word gloss=‘began’ OSHB 2 CHR 31:7 word 3

OET-LV: 7 in_month (the)_third they _began the_heaps to_found and_in_month the_seventh they _finished. (CH2_31:7)

OET-RV: 7 That all began in May and was finished by September, (CH2 31:7)

EZRA 3:8 contextual word gloss=‘they_began’ word gloss=‘began’ OSHB EZRA 3:8 word 10

OET-LV: 8 and_in_year the_second(fs) of_their_coming to the _house _of the_ʼElohīm to_Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) in_month the_second Zərubāⱱel they _began the _son _of Shəʼaltiy^ʼēl and_Yēshūˊa/(Jeshua) the _son _of Yōʦādāq/(Jozadak) and_the _rest _of their _brothers _of_of the_priests and_the_Lēviyyiy and_all the_(ones _who)_went from_the_captivity Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) and_they _appointed DOM the_Lēviyyiy from_a _son _of twenty year[s] and_(to)_upwards to_act _as _overseers over the _work _of the _house _of YHWH. (EZR_3:8)

OET-RV: 8 In the second month of second year since their return to Yerushalem, Shealtiel’s son Zerubavel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and everyone except who’d returned to Yerushalem from captivity, began work on God’s residence, and they appointed the Levites who were twenty and over to act as overseers for the work of rebuilding Yahweh’s temple. (EZR 3:8)

NEH 4:1 contextual word gloss=‘they_had_begun’ word gloss=‘beginning’ OSHB NEH 4:1 word 15

OET-LV: 4  and_he/it _was when he _heard Şanⱱallaţ and_Ţōⱱiy^yāh and_the_ˊArāⱱī and_the_ˊAmmōnī and_the_Ashdodites if/because _that it _had _gone _up the_repair of_the _walls _of of _Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) if/because _that they _had _begun the _broken_down_parts to_be _stopped _up and_it _glowed/burnt to/for_them exceedingly. (NEH_4:1)

OET-RV: 4 When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he got really angry. He mocked the Jews (NEH 4:1)

EST 9:23 contextual word gloss=‘they_had_begun’ word gloss=‘begun’ OSHB EST 9:23 word 5

OET-LV: 23 And_he _accepted the_Yəhūdī DOM that_which they _had _begun for_doing and_DOM that_which Mārəddəkay he _had _written to_them. (EST_9:23)

OET-RV: 23 The Jews had already celebrated those days that way, so they readily agreed to do what Mordekai had written. (EST 9:23)