Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #1850

OSHB Gen 5:4 מֵאֹת (mēʼot) Strongs=3967 Lemma=‘מֵאָה’
contextual word gloss=‘hundred(s)’ word gloss=‘hundreds’
Morphology=Acbpa PoS=adjective_(cardinal_number) Gender=both Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-3874 TimeSeries=Lifetime_of_Adam

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Other uses (2) of identical word form מֵאֹת (Morphology=Acbpa PoS=adjective_(cardinal_number) Gender=both Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מֵאֹת’ (Morphology=Acbpa PoS=adjective_(cardinal_number) Gender=both Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘hundred(s)’.

GEN 5:30 contextual word gloss=‘hundred(s)’ word gloss=‘hundreds’ OSHB GEN 5:30 word 11

OET-LV: 30 And_he/it _lived Lemek after fathering_by _him/it DOM Noaḩ five and_ninety year[s] and_five hundred(s) year[s] and_he/it _fathered sons and_daughters. (GEN_5:30)

OET-RV: 30 After Noah’s birth, Lemek lived another 595 years and had other sons and daughters. (GEN 5:30)

GEN 23:15 contextual word gloss=‘hundred(s)’ word gloss=‘hundreds’ OSHB GEN 23:15 word 5

OET-LV: 15 My_master listen_to _me land _of four hundred(s) shekel[s]_of silver between_me and_between_you what is_it and_DOM your _of_dead bury. (GEN_23:15)

OET-RV: 15 “My master, listen to me. That land’s worth 400 shekels of silver, but that’s nothing between me and you. Just go ahead and bury your dead.” (GEN 23:15)