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Hebrew wordlink #223898

OSHB Neh 5:16 קָנִינוּ (qānīnū) Strongs=7069 Lemma=‘קָנָה’
contextual word gloss=‘we_acquired’ word gloss=‘buy’
Morphology=Vqp1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-445

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Other uses (1) of identical word form קָנִינוּ (Morphology=Vqp1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘קָנִינוּ’ (Morphology=Vqp1cp PoS=qal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=plural) has 2 different glosses: ‘we_acquired’, ‘we_have_bought’.

NEH 5:8 contextual word gloss=‘we_have_bought’ word gloss=‘bought_back’ OSHB NEH 5:8 word 4

OET-LV: 8 And_I_said to/for_them we we _have _bought DOM countrymen _of_our the_Yəhūdī/(Jews) who_had_sold _themselves to_nations according_to _the _sufficiency _of in_us and_also you(pl) you(pl)_sold DOM countrymen _of_your(pl) and_they _were _sold to/for_us and_they _were _silent and_not they _found a _message. (NEH_5:8)

OET-RV: 8 and I told them, “Our brothers, the Jews, were sold to other countries as slaves and we’ve done all we can to bring them back here. But now even you yourselves are buying and selling your own countrymen to make a profit.” They couldn’t argue against that, so they were just silent. (NEH 5:8)