Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #13693

OSHB Gen 30:1 מֵתָה (mētāh) Strongs=4191 Lemma=‘מוּת’
contextual word gloss=‘[am]_about_to_die’ word gloss=‘die’
Morphology=Vqrfsa PoS=qal_verb Type=active_participle Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute

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

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

GEN 30:1 contextual word gloss=‘[am]_about_to_die’ word gloss=‘die’ OSHB GEN 30:1 word 18

OET-LV:  And_ Rāḩēl _she/it _saw if/because _that not she _had _borne _children to_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) and_ Rāḩēl _she _was _jealous of_sister _of_her and_she/it _said to Yaˊₐqoⱱ come_NOW to/for_me children and_if not am_about _to _die I. (GEN_30:1)

OET-RV:  Now Rahel realised that she wasn’t producing any children for Yacob, so she envied her sister Le’ah, and she demanded from Yacob, “Give me children, and if you don’t, I’ll die!” (GEN 30:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מוּת’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘[am]_about_to_die’, ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.