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OSHB Job 21:17 נֵר (nēr) Strongs=5216 a Lemma=‘נֵר’
contextual word gloss=‘[the]_lamp_of’ word gloss=‘lamp_of’
Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-1520 TimeSeries=Job's_Trial

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Other uses (4) of identical word form נֵר (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נֵר’ (Morphology=Ncmsc PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=construct) has 3 different glosses: ‘[the]_lamp_of’, ‘a_lamp_of’, ‘the_lamp_of’.

EXO 27:20 contextual word gloss=‘a_lamp_of’ word gloss=‘lamp_of’ OSHB EXO 27:20 word 14

OET-LV: 20 and_you(ms) you _will _command DOM the _people _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_they _will _bring to_you oil _of olive[s] pure pressed for_light to_lift _up a _lamp _of continually. (EXO_27:20)

OET-RV: 20 Order the Israelis to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps so they can be kept burning continually. (EXO 27:20)

2 SAM 21:17 contextual word gloss=‘the_lamp_of’ word gloss=‘lamp_of’ OSHB 2 SAM 21:17 word 24

OET-LV: 17 And_he _helped to_him/it ʼAⱱīshay the _son _of Tsərū^yāh/(Zeruiah) and_he _struck DOM the_Philistine and_he_killed _him then the _men _of they _swore of _Dāvid to_him/it to_say not you _will _go _out again with_us for_battle and_not you _will _extinguish DOM the _lamp _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel). (SA2_21:17)

OET-RV: 17 but Tseruyah’s son Abishai helped David, and he struck the Philistine and killed him. Then, David’s men made a decision, saying, “You won’t go out to battle with us anymore because we don’t want Yisrael’s lamp to be extinguished.” (SA2 21:17)

PROV 20:27 contextual word gloss=‘the_lamp_of’ word gloss=‘lamp_of’ OSHB PROV 20:27 word 1

OET-LV: 27 The _lamp _of YHWH is_the_breath _of a _human it_is_searching all _of the_chambers _of the_belly. (PRO_20:27)

OET-RV: 27 The human spirit is Yahweh’s lamp,
⇔ → searching all the innermost parts. (PRO 20:27)

PROV 24:20 contextual word gloss=‘[the]_lamp_of’ word gloss=‘lamp_of’ OSHB PROV 24:20 word 6

OET-LV: 20 If/because not a _future it _will _belong to_person the_lamp _of wicked_people it _will _be _extinguished. (PRO_24:20)

OET-RV: 20 → because there’s no future for an evil person.
⇔ ≈ The lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. (PRO 24:20)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘נֵר’’ have 6 different glosses: ‘[is]_a_lamp’, ‘[the]_lamp_of’, ‘a_lamp’, ‘a_lamp_of’, ‘of_Ner’, ‘the_lamp_of’.