Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #20982

OSHB Gen 42:21 אֲשֵׁמִים (ʼₐshēmīm) Strongs=818 Lemma=‘אָשֵׁם’
contextual word gloss=‘[are]_guilty’ word gloss=‘guilty’
Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-1707 TimeSeries=7_years_of_famine,Joseph's_brothers_go_to_Egypt

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Only use of identical word form ‘אֲשֵׁמִים’ (Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אֲשֵׁמִים’ (Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[are]_guilty’.

GEN 42:21 contextual word gloss=‘[are]_guilty’ word gloss=‘guilty’ OSHB GEN 42:21 word 6

OET-LV: 21 And_they _said each to his/its_brother indeed are_guilty we on brother _of_our who we _saw the _distress _of his _self _of_his when_he_sought _favour to_us and_not we _listened therefore yes/correct/thus/so it _has _come to_us the_distress (the)_this. (GEN_42:21)

OET-RV: 21 saying to each other (in Hebrew), “We are truly guilty concerning our brother Yosef, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, but we didn’t take any notice. That’s why this predicament has happened to us.” (GEN 42:21)