Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #114302

OSHB Jdg 6:3 זָרַע (zāraˊ) Strongs=2232 Lemma=‘זָרַע’
contextual word gloss=‘it_sowed’ word gloss=‘seed’
Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular
TimeSeries=Subjugation_by_Midian

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Only use of identical word form ‘זָרַע’ (Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘זָרַע’ (Morphology=Vqp3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘it_sowed’.

JDG 6:3 contextual word gloss=‘it_sowed’ word gloss=‘seed’ OSHB JDG 6:3 word 3

OET-LV: 3 And_it _was if it _sowed Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_he/it _would _go _up Midyān and_ˊAmālēq and_the _sons the_east and_they _went _up on/upon/above_him/it. (JDG_6:3)

OET-RV: 3 Whenever the Israelis planted a crop, the Midianites or the Amalekites, or eastern groups would attack them. (JDG 6:3)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘זָרַע’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘it_sowed’, ‘offspring’, ‘seed’.