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Hebrew wordlink #174392

OSHB 2 Ki 5:13 אָבִי (ʼāⱱī) Strongs=1 Lemma=‘אָב’
contextual word gloss=‘would_that!’ word gloss=‘my_father’
Morphology=Te PoS=exhortation_particle
Year=-894 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Elijah

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Only use of identical word form ‘אָבִי’ (Morphology=Te PoS=exhortation_particle) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אָבִי’ (Morphology=Te PoS=exhortation_particle) is always and only glossed as ‘would_that!’.

2 KI 5:13 contextual word gloss=‘would_that!’ word gloss=‘my_father’ OSHB 2 KI 5:13 word 6

OET-LV: 13 servants _of_his And_they _drew _near and_they _spoke to_him/it and_they _said would _that a _thing great the_prophet he _spoke to_you am_not will _you _do_it and_indeed if/because he _has _said to_you wash and_be _clean. (KI2_5:13)

OET-RV: 13 Then some of his servants approached him and suggested, “My master, if the prophet had told you to do something more significant, wouldn’t you have done it? So maybe you could do the simple thing that he told you: wash and get better.” (KI2 5:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘אָב’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘-abi’, ‘I_will_bring’, ‘would_that!’.