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Hebrew wordlink #24182

OSHB Gen 48:7 מֵתָה (mētāh) Strongs=4191 Lemma=‘מוּת’
contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘died’
Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular
Year=-1689

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Other uses (2) of identical word form מֵתָה (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מֵתָה’ (Morphology=Vqp3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) has 2 different glosses: ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.

GEN 35:18 contextual word gloss=‘she_died’ word gloss=‘dying’ OSHB GEN 35:18 word 5

OET-LV: 18 And_he/it _was when_went _out life _of_her if/because she _died and_she/it _called/named his/its_name Ben- Oni and_his _of_father he _called to_him/it Binyāmīn. (GEN_35:18)

OET-RV: 18 But Rahel was dying, and as her spirit was leaving her, she named the baby ‘Ben’oni’ (which means ‘son of my sorrow’), but afterwards Yacob renamed him ‘Benyamin’ (which means ‘son of my right hand’). (GEN 35:18)

EXO 7:21 contextual word gloss=‘it_died’ word gloss=‘died’ OSHB EXO 7:21 word 4

OET-LV: 21 And_the_fish which was_in_River it _died and_it _stank the_River and_not they _were _able Miʦrayim to_drink water from the_River and_he/it _was the_blood in_all the _land _of Miʦrayim. (EXO_7:21)

OET-RV: 21 Then the fish in the river died and the river stank, so the Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river, and the blood was all over Egypt. (EXO 7:21)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מוּת’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘[am]_about_to_die’, ‘it_died’, ‘she_died’.