Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #301818

OSHB Isa 59:10 נְגַֽשְׁשָׁה (nəgashshāh) Strongs=1659 Lemma=‘גָּשַׁשׁ’
contextual word gloss=‘We_grope_for’ word gloss=‘Grope_along’
Morphology=Vpi1cp PoS=piel_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-698 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Isaiah

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Only use of identical word form ‘נְגַֽשְׁשָׁה’ (Morphology=Vpi1cp PoS=piel_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נְגַֽשְׁשָׁה’ (Morphology=Vpi1cp PoS=piel_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘we_grope_for’.

ISA 59:10 contextual word gloss=‘we_grope_for’ word gloss=‘grope_along’ OSHB ISA 59:10 word 1

OET-LV: 10 We _grope _for like _(the)_people a _wall and_like_there_are_not eyes we _grope we _have _stumbled at_noon(s) like_twilight among_people like_who _have]_died. (ISA_59:10)

OET-RV: 10 We grope along the wall like the blind,
⇔ and feel around as though we had no eyes.
⇔ Even at midday, we stumble as if it’s twilight—
⇔ among the living but behaving like the dead. (ISA 59:10)