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Hebrew wordlink #313204

OSHB Jer 20:12 אֶרְאֶה (ʼerʼeh) Strongs=7200 Lemma=‘רָאָה’
contextual word gloss=‘let_me_see’ word gloss=‘see’
Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular
Year=-607 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Jeremiah

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Other uses (2) of identical word form אֶרְאֶה (Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אֶרְאֶה’ (Morphology=Vqh1cs PoS=qal_verb Type=cohortative Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) has 2 different glosses: ‘let_me_look’, ‘let_me_see’.

GEN 21:16 contextual word gloss=‘let_me_look’ word gloss=‘watch’ OSHB GEN 21:16 word 11

OET-LV: 16 And_she _went and_she _sat to/for_her/it from_before at _a _distance like_the_shooters _of a _bow if/because she _said not let _me _look on_the _death _of the _boy and_she _sat from_before and_she _lifted _up DOM voice _of_her and_she _wept. (GEN_21:16)

OET-RV: 16 and she went and she went a short distance away (about as far as a bow can shoot an arrow) and sat down there, because she said, “I don’t want to watch my child die.” And as she sat at a distance, she sobbed loudly. (GEN 21:16)

2 SAM 14:32 contextual word gloss=‘let_me_see’ word gloss=‘see’ OSHB 2 SAM 14:32 word 25

OET-LV: 32 And_ ʼAⱱīshālōm _he/it _said to Yōʼāⱱ here I _sent to_you to_say come here so_that _I _may _send you to the_king to_say to/for_what have _I _come from_Gəshūr was_good to_me still I was_there and_now let _me _see the _face _of the_king and_if there_is in_me iniquity and_he_will _kill _me. (SA2_14:32)

OET-RV: 32 “Listen, I tried to contact you,” Abshalom replied. “I asked you to come here so that I could send you to the king to ask what the point was of bringing me here from Geshur if I can’t see him—I might as well have stayed back there. So now, help me to get invited to see the king, and then if I’m considered guilty of a crime, then let him kill me.” (SA2 14:32)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘רָאָה’’ have 9 different glosses: ‘I_may_see’, ‘I_saw’, ‘I_should_look’, ‘I_will_look’, ‘I_will_see’, ‘I_will_see_[him]’, ‘let_me_look’, ‘let_me_see’, ‘will_I_see’.