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Hebrew wordlink #120993

OSHB Jdg 17:9 לֵוִי (lēvī) Strongs=3881 Lemma=‘לֵוִי’
contextual word gloss=‘[am]_a_Levite’ word gloss=‘Levi’
Morphology=Ngmsa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1419

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Other uses (2) of identical word form לֵוִי (Morphology=Ngmsa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘לֵוִי’ (Morphology=Ngmsa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘[am]_a_Levite’, ‘[was]_a_Levite’, ‘a_Levite’.

JDG 17:7 contextual word gloss=‘[was]_a_Levite’ word gloss=‘Levi’ OSHB JDG 17:7 word 9

OET-LV: 7 and_he/it _was a _young _man from food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh/(Judah) from_the _tribe _of Yəhūdāh and_he was_a _Lēviyyiy and_he was_sojourning there. (JDG_17:7)

OET-RV: 7 Now there was a young Levite man from the family of Yehudah who’d been staying in Bethlehem (in Yehudah). (JDG 17:7)

JDG 19:1 contextual word gloss=‘a_Levite’ word gloss=‘Levi’ OSHB JDG 19:1 word 9

OET-LV: 19 and_he/it _was in _the_days the_those and_a _king there_was_not in_Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_he/it _was a _man a _Lēviyyiy sojourning in_the _the _remotest _parts _of the _hill _country _of ʼEfrayim and_he/it _took to_him/it a _woman a _concubine from food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh/(Judah). (JDG_19:1)

OET-RV: 19 In those days when there was no king over Yisrael, there was a Levite man who was staying in the remotest parts of the hill country of Efrayim. He took a slave-wife for himself from Bethlehem in Yehudah. (JDG 19:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘לֵוִי’’ have 5 different glosses: ‘Levi’, ‘[am]_a_Levite’, ‘[was]_a_Levite’, ‘a_Levite’, ‘of_Levi’.