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Hebrew wordlink #17924

OSHB Gen 37:7 מְאַלְּמִים (məʼalləmīm) Strongs=481 Lemma=‘אָלַם’
contextual word gloss=‘[were]_binding’ word gloss=‘binding’
Morphology=Vprmpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-1728 TimeSeries=Joseph_sold_to_Egypt

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Only use of identical word form ‘מְאַלְּמִים’ (Morphology=Vprmpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מְאַלְּמִים’ (Morphology=Vprmpa PoS=piel_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[were]_binding’.

GEN 37:7 contextual word gloss=‘[were]_binding’ word gloss=‘binding’ OSHB GEN 37:7 word 3

OET-LV: 7 And_BEHOLD/LO/SEE we were_binding sheaves in _the_middle the_field and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE it _arose sheaf _of_my and_also it _stood _upright and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE they _gathered _round sheaves _of_your(pl) and_they _bowed _down to_sheaf _of_my. (GEN_37:7)

OET-RV: 7 See, we were tying up bundles of grain stalks in the middle of a field, and wow, my bundle got up and stood upright. Then would you believe it, your bundles gathered around and bowed down to my one.” (GEN 37:7)