Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #299566

OSHB Isa 51:1 מַקֶּבֶת (maqqeⱱet) Strongs=4718 b Lemma=‘מַקֶּבֶת’
contextual word gloss=‘[the]_excavation_of’ word gloss=‘excavation_of’
Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-712 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Isaiah

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Only use of identical word form ‘מַקֶּבֶת’ (Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מַקֶּבֶת’ (Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct) is always and only glossed as ‘[the]_excavation_of’.

ISA 51:1 contextual word gloss=‘[the]_excavation_of’ word gloss=‘excavation_of’ OSHB ISA 51:1 word 12

OET-LV:  listen to_me Oh_you(pl)_who_pursue _of (of)_righteousness you(pl)_who_seek _of (of)_YHWH look to the_rock which_you(pl)_were _dug and_near/to the_excavation _of the_pit which_you(pl)_were _dug _out. (ISA_51:1)

OET-RV:  Listen to me, all of you who strive to do what’s right—
⇔ ≈ you who want to follow Yahweh’s instructions.
⇔ Look at the rock that you where chiselled from,
⇔ ≈ and at the mouth of the cistern that you were quarried out of. (ISA 51:1)