Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #13637

OSHB Gen 29:34 יִלָּוֶה (yillāveh) Strongs=3867 a Lemma=‘לָוָה’
contextual word gloss=‘he_will_join_himself’ word gloss=‘joined’
Morphology=VNi3ms PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular
Year=-1750 TimeSeries=Birth_of_Levi

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Only use of identical word form ‘יִלָּוֶה’ (Morphology=VNi3ms PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘יִלָּוֶה’ (Morphology=VNi3ms PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘he_will_join_himself’.

GEN 29:34 contextual word gloss=‘he_will_join_himself’ word gloss=‘joined’ OSHB GEN 29:34 word 8

OET-LV: 34 And_she/it _conceived/became _pregnant again and_she/it _gave _birth a _son and_she/it _said now the_time//this _time husband _of_my he _will _join _himself to_me if/because I _have _borne to_him/it three sons therefore yes/correct/thus/so he _called his/its_name Lēvī. (GEN_29:34)

OET-RV: 34 Then she got pregnant again and gave birth to a third son, and she said, “This time now my husband will hold me close to him, because I’ve given him three sons.” That’s why she named the baby ‘Levi’ (which means ‘hold close’). (GEN 29:34)