Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #20910

OSHB Gen 42:16 הֵאָסְרוּ (hēʼāşərū) Strongs=631 Lemma=‘אָסַר’
contextual word gloss=‘be_imprisoned’ word gloss=‘kept_in_prison’
Morphology=VNv2mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperative Person=second Gender=masculine Number=plural
Year=-1707 TimeSeries=7_years_of_famine,Joseph's_brothers_go_to_Egypt

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Only use of identical word form ‘הֵאָסְרוּ’ (Morphology=VNv2mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperative Person=second Gender=masculine Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הֵאָסְרוּ’ (Morphology=VNv2mp PoS=niphal_verb Type=imperative Person=second Gender=masculine Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘be_imprisoned’.

GEN 42:16 contextual word gloss=‘be_imprisoned’ word gloss=‘kept_in_prison’ OSHB GEN 42:16 word 8

OET-LV: 16 Send of_yourselves one so_that _he _may _fetch DOM brother _of_your(pl) and_you(pl) be _imprisoned words/messages _of_your(pl) so_that _they _may _be _tested is_truth with_you(pl) and_if not by_the _life of _Parˊoh if/because are_spies you(pl). (GEN_42:16)

OET-RV: 16 Select one among you to go and get your brother, and the rest of you will be imprisoned. Then we’ll find out if you’ve all been telling the truth. And if not, on Far’oh’s life, you’re certainly spies.” (GEN 42:16)