Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #4302

OSHB Gen 11:4 נִבְנֶה (niⱱneh) Strongs=1129 Lemma=‘בָּנָה’
contextual word gloss=‘let_us_build’ word gloss=‘let_us_build’
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 ‘נִבְנֶה’ (Morphology=Vqh1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

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

GEN 11:4 contextual word gloss=‘let_us_build’ word gloss=‘let_us_build’ OSHB GEN 11:4 word 3

OET-LV: 4 And_they _said come_NOW let _us _build to/for_ourselves a _city and_(a)_tower and_its_top in_the _heavens and_we _may _make to/for_ourselves a _name lest we _should _be _scattered over the _surface _of all _of the_earth/land. (GEN_11:4)

OET-RV: 4 Then they said, “Come on, let’s build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a reputation for ourselves, so that we don’t get scattered all over the whole earth.” (GEN 11:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘בָּנָה’’ have 4 different glosses: ‘let_us_build’, ‘we_will_build’, ‘we_will_build_[it]’, ‘we_will_rebuild’.