Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #3805

OSHB Gen 9:23 שְׁכֶם (shəkem) Strongs=7926 Lemma=‘שְׁכֶם’
contextual word gloss=‘the_shoulder_of’ word gloss=‘Shekem’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Event=Noah_gets_drunk_and_Canaan_is_cursed TimeSeries=Noah_gets_drunk_and_Canaan_is_cursed

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Only use of identical word form ‘שְׁכֶם’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שְׁכֶם’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) is always and only glossed as ‘the_shoulder_of’.

GEN 9:23 contextual word gloss=‘the_shoulder_of’ word gloss=‘Shekem’ OSHB GEN 9:23 word 8

OET-LV: 23 And_ Shēm _he/it _took and_Yefet/(Japheth) DOM the_garment and_they _put_it on the _shoulder _of both _of_them and_they _walked backwards and_they _covered DOM the _nakedness _of their _father _of_their and_faces _of_their were_backwards and_the _nakedness _of their _father _of_their not they _saw. (GEN_9:23)

OET-RV: 23 So Shem and Yafet took a robe, and holding it between their shoulders they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father’s nakedness. (Their faces were towards the tent entrance, so they didn’t see his nakedness.) (GEN 9:23)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘שְׁכֶם’’ have 5 different glosses: ‘Shechem’, ‘[is]_Shechem’, ‘a_shoulder’, ‘of_Shechem’, ‘the_shoulder_of’.