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Hebrew wordlink #121769

OSHB Jdg 19:1 לֵוִי (lēvī) Strongs=3881 Lemma=‘לֵוִי’
contextual word gloss=‘a_Levite’ word gloss=‘Levi’
Morphology=Ngmsa PoS=noun_(gentilic) Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1406

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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 17:9 contextual word gloss=‘[am]_a_Levite’ word gloss=‘Levi’ OSHB JDG 17:9 word 8

OET-LV: 9 And_he/it _said to_him/it Mīkāh from_where do _you _come and_he/it _said to_him/it am_a _Lēviyyiy I from food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh and_I am_going to_sojourn in_where I _will _find. (JDG_17:9)

OET-RV: 9 “Where have you come from?” Micah asked him.
¶ “I’m a Levite from Bethlehem in Yehudah,” he replied, “and I’m trying to find a good place to stay a while.” (JDG 17:9)

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’.