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Hebrew wordlink #123742

OSHB Jdg 21:23 גָּזָלוּ (gāzālū) Strongs=1497 Lemma=‘גָּזַל’
contextual word gloss=‘they_seized’ word gloss=‘caught’
Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-1406

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Only use of identical word form ‘גָּזָלוּ’ (Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘גָּזָלוּ’ (Morphology=Vqp3cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘they_seized’.

JDG 21:23 contextual word gloss=‘they_seized’ word gloss=‘caught’ OSHB JDG 21:23 word 11

OET-LV: 23 and_they _did thus the _descendants _of Binyāmīn and_they _carried _off wives to_number _of_their from the_dancers whom they _seized and_they _went and_they _returned to inheritance _of_their and_they _rebuilt DOM the_cities and_they _lived in_them. (JDG_21:23)

OET-RV: 23 So that’s what the Benyamites did—they grabbed enough dancing girls to be their wives, then they returned to their allocated land and rebuilt their cities and lived in them. (JDG 21:23)