Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #315803

OSHB Jer 25:29 מֵחֵל (mēḩēl) Strongs=2490 c Lemma=‘חָלַל’
contextual word gloss=‘[am]_beginning’ word gloss=‘beginning’
Morphology=Vhrmsa PoS=hiphil_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-606 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Jeremiah

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Only use of identical word form ‘מֵחֵל’ (Morphology=Vhrmsa PoS=hiphil_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מֵחֵל’ (Morphology=Vhrmsa PoS=hiphil_verb Type=active_participle Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[am]_beginning’.

JER 25:29 contextual word gloss=‘[am]_beginning’ word gloss=‘beginning’ OSHB JER 25:29 word 9

OET-LV: 29 If/because HERE on_city which it _is _called name _of_my on/upon_it(f) I am_beginning to_do _harm and_you(pl) completely _(exempt _from _punishment) will _you(pl)_be _exempt _from _punishment not you(pl)_will _be _exempt _from _punishment if/because a _sword I am_calling on all _of the _inhabitants _of the_earth/land the _utterance _of YHWH soldiers/messengers. (JER_25:29)

OET-RV: 29 because listen, I’m about to bring disaster to the city that is called by my name, and should you yourselves be free from punishment? You won’t be free, because I’m calling a deadly army against all the inhabitants of the land.’
§ That is Commander-in-chief Yahweh’s declaration. (JER 25:29)