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Hebrew wordlink #18660

OSHB Gen 38:16 אָבוֹא (ʼāⱱōʼ) Strongs=935 Lemma=‘בּוֹא’
contextual word gloss=‘let_me_go’ word gloss=‘come_in’
Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular
Year=-1722

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Only use of identical word form ‘אָבוֹא’ (Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אָבוֹא’ (Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘let_me_go’.

GEN 38:16 contextual word gloss=‘let_me_go’ word gloss=‘come_in’ OSHB GEN 38:16 word 8

OET-LV: 16 And_he _turned _aside to_her/it to the_road and_he/it _said come_NOW please let _me _go into_you if/because not he _knew if/because _that daughter-in-law _of_was_his she and_she/it _said what will _you _give to/for_me (cmp) you _will _come into_me. (GEN_38:16)

OET-RV: 16 So he turned to her beside the road and asked, “Please let me lie with you,” because he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
¶ “What will you give me in exchange?” she asked. (GEN 38:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘בּוֹא’’ have 9 different glosses: ‘I_go’, ‘I_should_come’, ‘I_went’, ‘I_will_come’, ‘I_will_enter’, ‘I_will_go’, ‘let_me_go’, ‘will_I_go’, ‘will_I_go?’.