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Hebrew wordlink #242300

OSHB Job 39:28 סֶלַע (şelaˊ) Strongs=5553 Lemma=‘סֶלַע’
contextual word gloss=‘A_rock’ word gloss=‘Cliff’
Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1520 TimeSeries=Job's_Trial

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Other uses (5) of identical word form סֶלַע (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘סֶלַע’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) has 2 different glosses: ‘a_rock’, ‘rock’.

JOB 39:28 contextual word gloss=‘a_rock’ word gloss=‘rocky’ OSHB JOB 39:28 word 6

OET-LV: 28 A _rock it _dwells and_it _passes _the _night on the_tooth _of a _rock and_a _stronghold. (JOB_39:28)

OET-RV: 28 It lives on a cliff,
⇔ ≈ and spends the night in its fortress among the sharp rocks. (JOB 39:28)

PSA 40:3 contextual word gloss=‘a_rock’ word gloss=‘rock’ OSHB PSA 40:3 word 8

OET-LV: 3  and_he_brought _me _up from_a _pit _of roaring from_the _mud _of the _mire and_he _set on a _rock feet _of_my he _established steps _of_my. (PSA_40:3)

OET-RV: 3 He’s given me a new song to sing, praise to our god.
⇔ Many will see it and honour him
⇔ ≈ and will trust in Yahweh. (PSA 40:3)

PSA 141:6 contextual word gloss=‘a_rock’ word gloss=‘cliff’ OSHB PSA 141:6 word 3

OET-LV: 6 They _have _been _thrown _down at_the _hands _of a _rock their _of_judges and_they _will _hear words/messages _of_my if/because _that they _are _pleasant. (PSA_141:6)

OET-RV: 6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs,
⇔ the people will listen to my words because they’re pleasant. (PSA 141:6)

EZE 24:7 contextual word gloss=‘rock’ word gloss=‘rock’ OSHB EZE 24:7 word 7

OET-LV: 7 If/because blood _of_its in_the _midst _of_of _it it _was on bareness _of rock it_put _it not it_poured _it _out on the_earth/land to_cover on/upon/above_him/it dust. (EZE_24:7)

OET-RV: 7 because the blood the city shed is all the way through its centre. It displayed the blood on a flat rock to be easily seen, rather than pouring it out on the ground where it could be covered over with dust, (EZE 24:7)

EZE 26:14 contextual word gloss=‘rock’ word gloss=‘rock’ OSHB EZE 26:14 word 3

OET-LV: 14 And_I_will _make _you into_bareness _of rock a _spreading _place _of nets you _will _be not you _will _be _built again if/because I YHWH I _have _spoken the _utterance _of my_master YHWH. (EZE_26:14)

OET-RV: 14 I’ll make you back into a bare rock—you’ll become a place where nets are spread out to dry. You’ll never be built again, because I, master Yahweh, have spoken. That’s the master Yahweh’s declaration. (EZE 26:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘סֶלַע’’ have 6 different glosses: ‘Sela’, ‘a_rock’, ‘of_Sela’, ‘of_the_rock_of’, ‘rock’, ‘the_rock_of’.