Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #4393

OSHB Gen 11:9 בָּלַל (bālal) Strongs=1101 a Lemma=‘בָּלַל’
contextual word gloss=‘he_confused’ possible word glosses=‘he / it_confused’
Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular
Year=-2247 Event=Languages_are_confused_at_Babel TimeSeries=Tower_of_Babel

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Only use of identical word form ‘בָּלַל’ (Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘בָּלַל’ (Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘he_confused’.

GEN 11:9 contextual word gloss=‘he_confused’ possible word glosses=‘he / it_confused’ OSHB GEN 11:9 word 8

OET-LV: 9 Therefore yes/correct/thus/so someone _called his/its_name Bāⱱel if/because there YHWH he _confused the _language _of all _of the_earth/land and_from_there he/it _scattered_them YHWH over the _surface _of all _of the_earth/land. (GEN_11:9)

OET-RV: 9 That’s why they named the city ‘Babel’ (meaning ‘mixed-up’) because it was there that Yahweh mixed up everyone’s language and then scattered them over the whole world. (GEN 11:9)