Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #115

OSHB Gen 1:9 יִקָּווּ (yiqqāvū) Strongs=6960 b Lemma=‘קָוָה’
contextual word gloss=‘let_them_be_gathered’ word gloss=‘let_them_gather’
Morphology=VNj3mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=jussive Person=third Gender=masculine Number=plural
Year=-4004 Event=God_creates_all_things TimeSeries=Creation_of_all_things

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Only use of identical word form ‘יִקָּווּ’ (Morphology=VNj3mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=jussive Person=third Gender=masculine Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘יִקָּווּ’ (Morphology=VNj3mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=jussive Person=third Gender=masculine Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘let_them_be_gathered’.

GEN 1:9 contextual word gloss=‘let_them_be_gathered’ word gloss=‘let_them_gather’ OSHB GEN 1:9 word 3

OET-LV: 9 and_ god _he/it _said let _them _be _gathered the_waters from_under the_heavens to a _place one and_let _it _appear the_dry _ground and_he/it _was so. (GEN_1:9)

OET-RV: 9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” Everything happened exactly as he commanded, (GEN 1:9)