Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #105938

OSHB Jos 14:1 נִחֲלוּ (niḩₐlū) Strongs=5157 Lemma=‘נָחַל’
contextual word gloss=‘they_gave_as_a_possession’ word gloss=‘gave’
Morphology=Vpp3cp PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-1444 TimeSeries=Dividing_the_land

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Other uses (1) of identical word form נִחֲלוּ (Morphology=Vpp3cp PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִחֲלוּ’ (Morphology=Vpp3cp PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘they_gave_as_a_possession’.

JOS 19:51 contextual word gloss=‘they_gave_as_a_possession’ word gloss=‘distributed’ OSHB JOS 19:51 word 4

OET-LV: 51 These are_the_inheritances which they _gave _as _a _possession ʼElˊāzār the_priest/officer and_Yəhōshūˊa the _son _of Nūn and_the _heads _of the _fathers of_the _tribes _of of _the _people _of of _Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) by_lot in_Shiloh to_(the)_face _of/in _front _of/before YHWH the _entrance _of the _tent _of meeting and_they _finished from_apportioning DOM the_earth/land. (JOS_19:51)

OET-RV: 51 Those were the allotments that Eleazar the priest and Yehoshua (Nun’s son) gave to the leaders of the Israeli tribes as their inheritances. It was done by throwing dice there in Shiloh in front of Yahweh at the opening of the sacred tent, and so the land division was completed. (JOS 19:51)