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Hebrew wordlink #223953

← בִקַּשְׁתִּי ⌂ → Neh 5 ║ ═

OSHB Neh 5:18 בִקַּשְׁתִּי (ⱱiqqashtī) Strongs=1245 Lemma=‘בָּקַשׁ’
contextual word gloss=‘I_sought’ word gloss=‘demand’
Morphology=Vpp1cs PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular
Year=-445

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Only use of identical word form ‘בִקַּשְׁתִּי’ (Morphology=Vpp1cs PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘בִקַּשְׁתִּי’ (Morphology=Vpp1cs PoS=piel_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=first Gender=common Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘I_sought’.

NEH 5:18 contextual word gloss=‘I_sought’ word gloss=‘demand’ OSHB NEH 5:18 word 25

OET-LV: 18 And_which it _was made for_a _day one was_an _ox one sheep six chosen and_poultry they _were _made to_me and_between ten _of days in_all wine to_abundance and_with this the _food _of the _governor not I _sought if/because it _was _heavy the_service on the_people (the)_this. (NEH_5:18)

OET-RV: 18 so in one day we needed one bull, six choice sheep, and various kinds of poultry, as well as various types of wines every ten days. I didn’t demand any of this from the people because it would have been a heavy burden for them. (NEH 5:18)