Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #6477

OSHB Gen 17:5 אַב (ʼaⱱ) Strongs=1 Lemma=‘אָב’
contextual word gloss=‘a_father_of’ word gloss=‘father_of’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-1897

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Only use of identical word form ‘אַב’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אַב’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) is always and only glossed as ‘a_father_of’.

GEN 17:5 contextual word gloss=‘a_father_of’ word gloss=‘father_of’ OSHB GEN 17:5 word 11

OET-LV: 5 And_not it _will _be _called again DOM name _of_your ʼAⱱrām and_it _was name _of_your ʼAⱱrāhām if/because a _father _of a _multitude _of nations I_have _made _you. (GEN_17:5)

OET-RV: 5 so you’ll no longer be called ‘Abram’, but now your name will be ‘Abraham’ (which means ‘father of many nations’) because I’m making you the father of many nations. (GEN 17:5)