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Hebrew wordlink #111335

OSHB Jos 24:21 נַעֲבֹד (naˊₐⱱod) Strongs=5647 Lemma=‘עָבַד’
contextual word gloss=‘we_will_serve’ word gloss=‘serve’
Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-1427

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Other uses (3) of identical word form נַעֲבֹד (Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נַעֲבֹד’ (Morphology=Vqi1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘we_will_serve’.

JOS 24:15 contextual word gloss=‘we_will_serve’ word gloss=‘serve’ OSHB JOS 24:15 word 32

OET-LV: 15 And_if is_displeasing in_your _two’s _of_eyes to_serve DOM YHWH choose to/for_you(pl) the_day DOM whom will_you _serve whether DOM the_gods which they _served ancestors _of_your(pl) who were_from_the _other _side _of the_river and_if DOM the _gods _of the_ʼAmorī whom you(pl) are_dwelling in_their _of_land and_I and_my _of_household we _will _serve DOM YHWH. (JOS_24:15)

OET-RV: 15 But if you all dislike serving Yahweh, then choose for yourselves today who you will serve: perhaps the gods your fathers once served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorite people in whose land you are now living. But as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh.” (JOS 24:15)

JOS 24:18 contextual word gloss=‘we_will_serve’ word gloss=‘serve’ OSHB JOS 24:18 word 13

OET-LV: 18 And_ YHWH _he/it _drove _out DOM all _of the_peoples and_DOM the_ʼAmorī who _was_dwelling the_earth/land from_before _of_us also we we _will _serve DOM YHWH if/because he god _of_is_our. (JOS_24:18)

OET-RV: 18 Yahweh drove all the peoples out ahead of us, even the Amorites who lived in that region. So we too we will serve Yahweh because he is our god.” (JOS 24:18)

JOS 24:24 contextual word gloss=‘we_will_serve’ word gloss=‘serve’ OSHB JOS 24:24 word 8

OET-LV: 24 And_they _said the_people to Yəhōshūˊa DOM YHWH god _of_our we _will _serve and_to_his _of_voice we _will _listen. (JOS_24:24)

OET-RV: 24 “We will serve our god Yahweh, and we will listen to his voice,” the people replied. (JOS 24:24)