Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #17067

OSHB Gen 35:18 מֵתָה (mētāh) Strongs=4191 Lemma=‘מוּת’
contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘dying’
Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular
Year=-1729 TimeSeries=Rachel_dies_giving_birth_to_Benjamin

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Other uses (2) of identical word form מֵתָה (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מֵתָה’ (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) has 2 different glosses: ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.

GEN 48:7 contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘died’ OSHB GEN 48:7 word 4

OET-LV: 7 And_I when_I_came from_Paddan she _died on_me Rāḩēl in_land of _Kənaˊan/(Canaan) on_journey at_yet a _distance _of land to_go ʼEfrātāh and_I_buried _her there on_the _journey _of ʼEfrāt that is_Bēyt- leḩem. (GEN_48:7)

OET-RV: 7 As for me, when I was coming into Canaan from Paddan, Rahel died beside on the way when we were still quite some distance from Efrath, and I buried her there beside the road of Efrath (which is Bethlehem).” (GEN 48:7)

EXO 7:21 contextual word gloss=‘it_died’ word gloss=‘died’ OSHB EXO 7:21 word 4

OET-LV: 21 And_the_fish which was_in_River it _died and_it _stank the_River and_not they _were _able Miʦrayim to_drink water from the_River and_he/it _was the_blood in_all the _land _of Miʦrayim. (EXO_7:21)

OET-RV: 21 Then the fish in the river died and the river stank, so the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river, and the blood was all over Egypt. (EXO 7:21)

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