Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #218417

OSHB Ezra 4:2 נִדְרוֹשׁ (nidrōsh) Strongs=1875 Lemma=‘דָּרַשׁ’
contextual word gloss=‘we_seek’ word gloss=‘seek’
Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural

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Only use of identical word form ‘נִדְרוֹשׁ’ (Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִדְרוֹשׁ’ (Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘we_seek’.

EZRA 4:2 contextual word gloss=‘we_seek’ word gloss=‘seek’ OSHB EZRA 4:2 word 13

OET-LV: 2 And_they _approached (to) Zərubāⱱel and_near/to the _heads _of the _fathers and_they _said to/for_them let _us _build with_you(pl) if/because like we _seek (to)_god _of_your(pl) and_to we have _been_sacrificing since_the _days _of ʼĒşar- ḩaddōn the _king _of ʼAshshūr who_brought_up us here. (EZR_4:2)

OET-RV: 2 so they went to Zerubavel and to the other clan leaders and they said to them, “Let us help you with the building work, because like you, we worship your god and we’ve been sacrificing to him since the days of the Assyrian king Esar-Haddon—the one who sent us here.” (EZR 4:2)