Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #381011

OSHB Mal 3:14 עֲבֹד (ˊₐⱱod) Strongs=5647 Lemma=‘עָבַד’
contextual word gloss=‘to_serve’ word gloss=‘serve’
Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct
Year=-397 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Malachi

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Other uses (1) of identical word form עֲבֹד (Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘עֲבֹד’ (Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) has 2 different glosses: ‘serving’, ‘to_serve’.

EXO 14:12 contextual word gloss=‘serving’ word gloss=‘serve’ OSHB EXO 14:12 word 17

OET-LV: 12 Not is_this the_message which we _spoke to_you in_Miʦrayim to_say cease from_him/it so_that _we _may _serve DOM Miʦrayim if/because is_good to/for_us serving DOM Miʦrayim more_than_our _dying in_wilderness. (EXO_14:12)

OET-RV: 12 Isn’t this exactly what we told you in Egypt when we said, ‘Just leave us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? Because serving the Egyptians sounds a lot better to us than dying out here in the wilderness.” (EXO 14:12)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘עָבַד’’ have 3 different glosses: ‘serve’, ‘serving’, ‘to_serve’.