Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #11260

OSHB Gen 25:26 אֹחֶזֶת (ʼoḩezet) Strongs=270 Lemma=‘אָחַז’
contextual word gloss=‘[was]_holding’ word gloss=‘grasping’
Morphology=Vqrfsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1836 TimeSeries=Birth_of_Jacob_and_Esau,Lifetime_of_Jacob

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Only use of identical word form ‘אֹחֶזֶת’ (Morphology=Vqrfsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אֹחֶזֶת’ (Morphology=Vqrfsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[was]_holding’.

GEN 25:26 contextual word gloss=‘[was]_holding’ word gloss=‘grasping’ OSHB GEN 25:26 word 6

OET-LV: 26 And_after thus his/its_brother he _came _out and_hand _of_his was_holding on_the _heel _of ˊĒsāv and_he/it _called his/its_name Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) and_Yiʦḩāq/(Isaac) was_a _son _of sixty year[s] when_fathered DOM_them. (GEN_25:26)

OET-RV: 26 Then his brother was born and his hand grabbed Esaw’s heel, so he was named ‘Yacob’ (which means ‘heel-grabber’). Yitshak was sixty years old when they were born. (GEN 25:26)