Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #172736

OSHB 2 Ki 2:24 דֻּבִּים (dubīm) Strongs=1677 Lemma=‘דֹּב’
contextual word gloss=‘[female]_bears’ word gloss=‘bears’
Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute
Year=-896 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Elisha

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Only use of identical word form ‘דֻּבִּים’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘דֻּבִּים’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[female]_bears’.

2 KI 2:24 contextual word gloss=‘[female]_bears’ word gloss=‘bears’ OSHB 2 KI 2:24 word 9

OET-LV: 24 And_he _turned behind_him and_he_saw _them and_he_cursed _them in/on_name _of YHWH and_they _came _out two female_bears from the_forest and_they _tore _in _pieces from_them forty and_two _of boys. (KI2_2:24)

OET-RV: 24 Then Elisha turned back around and looked at them, and he cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Just then, two female bears came out from the forest and mauled forty-two of them. (KI2 2:24)