Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #295274

OSHB Isa 38:8 צֵל (ʦēl) Strongs=6738 Lemma=‘צֵל’
contextual word gloss=‘the_shadow_of’ word gloss=‘shadow_of’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-718 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Isaiah

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Other uses (1) of identical word form צֵל (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

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

JDG 9:36 contextual word gloss=‘the_shadow_of’ word gloss=‘shadows_of’ OSHB JDG 9:36 word 17

OET-LV: 36 And_he/it _saw Gaˊal DOM the_people and_he/it _said to Zəⱱul there a _people is_coming _down from_the _tops _of the _mountains and_he/it _said to_him/it Zəⱱul DOM the _shadow _of the _mountains you are_seeing like_men. (JDG_9:36)

OET-RV: 36 When Ga’al saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, a group of people is coming down from the tops of the hills!”
¶ “You are seeing the shadow of the hills as men,” Zebul responded. (JDG 9:36)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘צֵל’’ have 4 different glosses: ‘[are]_a_shadow’, ‘a_shade’, ‘shade’, ‘the_shadow_of’.