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Hebrew wordlink #156967

OSHB 1 Ki 2:20 שְׁאֵלָה (shəʼēlāh) Strongs=7596 Lemma=‘שְׁאֵלָה’
contextual word gloss=‘a_petition’ word gloss=‘request’
Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1014 TimeSeries=Reign_of_Solomon

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Other uses (2) of identical word form שְׁאֵלָה (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שְׁאֵלָה’ (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘a_petition’.

JDG 8:24 contextual word gloss=‘a_petition’ word gloss=‘request’ OSHB JDG 8:24 word 6

OET-LV: 24 And_he/it _said to_them Gidˊōn let _me _ask from_you(pl) a _petition and_give to_me everyone (the)_earring _of his _plunder _of_of if/because earrings _of gold to/for_them if/because were_Yishmāˊ^ʼēlī they. (JDG_8:24)

OET-RV: 24 However, he continued, “Let me ask you all for something: that each man give me the earrings from his spoil.” (The enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) (JDG 8:24)

1 KI 2:16 contextual word gloss=‘a_petition’ word gloss=‘request’ OSHB 1 KI 2:16 word 2

OET-LV: 16 And_now a _petition one I am_asking from_with_you do _not turn _away DOM face _of_my and_she/it _said to_him/it speak. (KI1_2:16)

OET-RV: 16 So now, I have only one thing to request from you—please don’t refuse me.”
¶ “Go on,” she said. (KI1 2:16)