Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #7247

OSHB Gen 18:27 הוֹאַלְתִּי (hōʼaltī) Strongs=2974 Lemma=‘יָאַל’
contextual word gloss=‘I_have_undertaken’ word gloss=‘bold’
Morphology=Vhp1cs PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular
Year=-1897 TimeSeries=Sodom_Destroyed

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Other uses (1) of identical word form הוֹאַלְתִּי (Morphology=Vhp1cs PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הוֹאַלְתִּי’ (Morphology=Vhp1cs PoS=hiphil_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘I_have_undertaken’.

GEN 18:31 contextual word gloss=‘I_have_undertaken’ word gloss=‘bold’ OSHB GEN 18:31 word 4

OET-LV: 31 And_he/it _said here please I _have _undertaken to_speak to my_master perhaps they_will _be _found there twenty and_he/it _said not I _will _destroy_it in_account _of the_twenty. (GEN_18:31)

OET-RV: 31 “Listen, I’ve taken it upon myself to speak to my master,” Abraham asked again, “suppose twenty are found there?”
¶ “I won’t do it for the sake of the twenty,” he agreed. (GEN 18:31)