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Hebrew wordlink #11512

OSHB Gen 26:8 אָרְכוּ (ʼārəkū) Strongs=748 Lemma=‘אָרַךְ’
contextual word gloss=‘they_had_become_long’ word gloss=‘long’
Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-1804

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Only use of identical word form ‘אָרְכוּ’ (Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אָרְכוּ’ (Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘they_had_become_long’.

GEN 26:8 contextual word gloss=‘they_had_become_long’ word gloss=‘long’ OSHB GEN 26:8 word 3

OET-LV: 8 And_he/it _was if/because they _had _become _long to_him/it there the_days and_ ʼAⱱīmelek _he _looked _down the _king _of the_Fəlishtiy through the_window and_he/it _saw and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE Yiʦḩāq/(Isaac) was_playing with Riⱱqāh his/its_wife/woman. (GEN_26:8)

OET-RV: 8 Then when he’d been in that area for quite a while, the Philistine King Abimelech looked down from a window and saw that to his surprise, Yitshak was laughing together with his wife Rebekah. (GEN 26:8)