Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #113253

OSHB Jdg 3:28 מַעְבְּרוֹת (maˊbərōt) Strongs=4569 b Lemma=‘מַעֲבָרָה’
contextual word gloss=‘the_fords_of’ word gloss=‘fords_of’
Morphology=Ncfpc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=construct
Year=-1325 TimeSeries=Deliverance_by_Ehud

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Other uses (2) of identical word form מַעְבְּרוֹת (Morphology=Ncfpc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מַעְבְּרוֹת’ (Morphology=Ncfpc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=plural State=construct) is always and only glossed as ‘the_fords_of’.

JDG 12:5 contextual word gloss=‘the_fords_of’ word gloss=‘fords_of’ OSHB JDG 12:5 word 4

OET-LV: 5 And_ Gilˊād _it _captured DOM the _fords _of the _Yardēn/(Jordan) to_ʼEfrayim and_it _was if/because the _fugitives _of they _said of _ʼEfrayim let _me _pass _over and_they _said to_him/it the _men _of Gilˊād an_ʼEfrātī are_you and_he _said no. (JDG_12:5)

OET-RV: 5 The Gileadites captured the crossing places of the Jordan along Efrayim. Then when any of the survivors from Efrayim would say, “May I cross over,” the men of Gilead would ask, “Are you an Efrayimite?” If he said, “No,” (JDG 12:5)

JDG 12:6 contextual word gloss=‘the_fords_of’ word gloss=‘fords_of’ OSHB JDG 12:6 word 16

OET-LV: 6 And_they _said to_him/it say please Shibboleth and_he/it _said Sibboleth and_not he _gave _attention to_speak right and_they _seized him and_they_slaughtered _him to the _fords _of the _Yardēn and_it _fell at_time (the)_that of_ʼEfrayim forty and_two thousand. (JDG_12:6)

OET-RV: 6 then they’d demand, “Now say: Shibboleth.” But if he said “Sibboleth” because he didn’t have time to think to pronounce it correctly, they would seize him and would slaughter him at those crossing places of the Yordan. Forty-two thousand from Efrayim fell at that time. (JDG 12:6)