Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #100645

Key: khaki:verbs.
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OSHB Jos 4:18 וַיְהִי (va, yəhī) Strongs=c, 1961 Lemmas=‘וְ’, ‘הָיָה’
word gloss=‘And_he / it_was’ contextual morpheme glosses=‘And, it_was’ morpheme glosses=‘And, happened’
Morphology=C PoS=conjunction
Morphology=Vqw3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=sequential_imperfect_(wayyiqtol) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular
Year=-1451 TimeSeries=War_with_Canaanites

OET-LV: 18 And_he/it_was in/on/at/with the_priests who_carry _of (of)_the _box _of the _covenant _of YHWH from_the _middle _of the _Yardēn the _soles _of the _feet _of the _priests they _were _drawn _out to the _dry_ground and_ the _waters _of the _Yardēn _they _returned to_place _of_their and_they _went as_yesterday three _days _ago over all _of banks _of_its. (JOS 4:18)

OET-RV: 18 As soon as the priests carrying the box with Yahweh’s agreement came up out of what had been the Yordan River and their feet stepped onto what had been dry land, the river water returned to its place and overflowed it banks as it had been doing for the previous few days. (JOS 4:18)

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The word form ‘וַיְהִי’ (Morphology=C PoS=conjunction
Morphology=Vqw3ms PoS=qal_verb Type=sequential_imperfect_(wayyiqtol) Person=third Gender=masculine Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘and_he / it_was’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemmas=‘וְ’, ‘הָיָה’’ have only one gloss: ‘and=he/it_was’.