Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #4286

OSHB Gen 11:3 נִלְבְּנָה (nilbənāh) Strongs=3835 b Lemma=‘לָבַן’
contextual word gloss=‘let_us_make_bricks’ word gloss=‘let_us_make_bricks’
Morphology=Vqh1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-2247 Event=Languages_are_confused_at_Babel TimeSeries=Tower_of_Babel

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Only use of identical word form ‘נִלְבְּנָה’ (Morphology=Vqh1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִלְבְּנָה’ (Morphology=Vqh1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘let_us_make_bricks’.

GEN 11:3 contextual word gloss=‘let_us_make_bricks’ word gloss=‘let_us_make_bricks’ OSHB GEN 11:3 word 6

OET-LV: 3 And_they _said each to his/its_neighbour come_NOW let _us _make _bricks bricks and_let _us _burn to_burning and_it _became to/for_them the_brick to_stone and_the_bitumen it _became to/for_them to_mortar. (GEN_11:3)

OET-RV: 3 Then they said to each other, “Come on, let’s make bricks and cure them with fire.” So they had bricks instead of stones, and they had tar for mortar. (GEN 11:3)