Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #18279

OSHB Gen 37:28 מִדְיָנִים (midyānīm) Strongs=4084 Lemma=‘מִדְיָנִי’
contextual word gloss=‘Midianite[s]’ word gloss=‘Midyānite’
Morphology=Ngmpa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-1728 TimeSeries=Joseph_sold_to_Egypt

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Only use of identical word form ‘מִדְיָנִים’ (Morphology=Ngmpa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מִדְיָנִים’ (Morphology=Ngmpa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘Midianite[s]’.

GEN 37:28 contextual word gloss=‘Midianite[s]’ word gloss=‘Midyānite’ OSHB GEN 37:28 word 3

OET-LV: 28 And_ men _they _passed _by Midyānite[s] traders and_they _drew and_they _brought _up DOM Yōşēf from the_pit and_they _sold DOM Yōşēf to_Yishmāˊ^ʼēlī for_twenty silver and_they _brought DOM Yōşēf towards_Miʦrayim. (GEN_37:28)

OET-RV: 28 So when the Midianite traders came past, the brothers pulled Yosef up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Then the traders took Yosef onwards with them to Mitsrayim. (GEN 37:28)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מִדְיָנִי’’ have 2 different glosses: ‘Midianite[s]’, ‘contentions’.