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Hebrew wordlink #119967

OSHB Jdg 15:11 סֶלַע (şelaˊ) Strongs=5553 Lemma=‘סֶלַע’
contextual word gloss=‘of_the_rock_of’ word gloss=‘rock_of’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-1141 TimeSeries=Philistine_Dominion

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Other uses (3) of identical word form סֶלַע (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘סֶלַע’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) has 2 different glosses: ‘of_the_rock_of’, ‘the_rock_of’.

JDG 15:8 contextual word gloss=‘of_the_rock_of’ word gloss=‘rock_of’ OSHB JDG 15:8 word 11

OET-LV: 8 And_he _defeated them leg with thigh a _defeat great and_he/it _descended and_he/it _sat _down//remained//lived in_the _cleft _of the _rock _of ˊĒyţām. (JDG_15:8)

OET-RV: 8 Then he attacked the Philistines and crippled many of them, before going to Etam’s rock where he lived in a cave. (JDG 15:8)

JDG 20:45 contextual word gloss=‘the_rock_of’ word gloss=‘rock_of’ OSHB JDG 20:45 word 5

OET-LV: 45 And_they _turned and_they _fled to_the_wilderness to the _rock _of (the)_Rimmōn and_they_gleaned _him in_highways five _of thousand(s) man and_they _pursued _closely after_him to Gidˊom and_they _struck _down from_him/it two _thousand man. (JDG_20:45)

OET-RV: 45 and the rest turned and fled into the wilderness towards the Rimmon rock. Another five thousand men were killed along the trails. They chased them all the way to Gidom, and killed another two thousand men, (JDG 20:45)

JDG 20:47 contextual word gloss=‘the_rock_of’ word gloss=‘rock_of’ OSHB JDG 20:47 word 5

OET-LV: 47 And_they _turned and_they _fled to_the_wilderness to the _rock _of (the)_Rimmōn six hundred(s) man and_they _lived at_the _rock _of Rimmōn four months. (JDG_20:47)

OET-RV: 47 But six hundred men made it to Rimmon rock, and they stayed there for four months. (JDG 20:47)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘סֶלַע’’ have 6 different glosses: ‘Sela’, ‘a_rock’, ‘of_Sela’, ‘of_the_rock_of’, ‘rock’, ‘the_rock_of’.