Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #118301

OSHB Jdg 11:25 נִלְחֹם (nilḩom) Strongs=3898 a Lemma=‘לָחַם’
contextual word gloss=‘ever_(wage_war)’ word gloss=‘to_fight’
Morphology=VNa PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_absolute
Year=-1187 TimeSeries=Deliverance_by_Jephthah

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Only use of identical word form ‘נִלְחֹם’ (Morphology=VNa PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִלְחֹם’ (Morphology=VNa PoS=niphal_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘ever_(wage_war)’.

JDG 11:25 contextual word gloss=‘ever_(wage_war)’ word gloss=‘to_fight’ OSHB JDG 11:25 word 15

OET-LV: 25 And_now really_(good) are _you _good you more_than _Bālāq the _son _of Tsipōr/(Zippor) the _king _of Mōʼāⱱ ever_(quarrel) did _he _quarrel with Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) or ever _(wage _war) did _he _wage _war against_them. (JDG_11:25)

OET-RV: 25 Are you really better now than Zippor’s son, King Balak of Moab? Did he dare contend with Yisrael or did he ever wage war against them? (JDG 11:25)