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OSHB Num 20:17 בְאֵר (ⱱəʼēr) Strongs=875 Lemma=‘בְּאֵר’
contextual word gloss=‘a_well’ word gloss=‘well’
Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1471

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Other uses (4) of identical word form בְאֵר (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘בְאֵר’ (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) has 2 different glosses: ‘O_well’, ‘a_well’.

GEN 29:2 contextual word gloss=‘a_well’ word gloss=‘well’ OSHB GEN 29:2 word 3

OET-LV: 2 And_he/it _saw and_see/lo/see a _well in _the_field and_see/lo/see there three flocks _of sheep were_lying _down on/upon_it(f) if/because from the_well the_that people _watered the_flocks and_the_stone was_large over the _mouth _of the _well. (GEN_29:2)

OET-RV: 2 Close to his destination, he looked ahead, and wow, there was a well in the countryside, and what’s more, three flocks of sheep and goats were lying there near it, because the flocks were watered from that well but the stone over the mouth of the well was large and heavy. (GEN 29:2)

NUM 21:17 contextual word gloss=‘O_well’ word gloss=‘well’ OSHB NUM 21:17 word 8

OET-LV: 17 then Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) it _sang DOM the_song (the)_this spring _up Oh _well sing to/for_her/it. (NUM_21:17)

OET-RV: 17 That’s where the Israelis sang this song:
⇔ “Come on, well,
⇔ sing for this well. (NUM 21:17)

NUM 21:22 contextual word gloss=‘a_well’ word gloss=‘well’ OSHB NUM 21:22 word 10

OET-LV: 22 Let _me _pass in_your _of_land not we _will _turn _aside in_a _field and_in_a _vineyard not we _will _drink water _of a _well on_the _way _of the_king we _will _go until that we _will _pass _through territory _of_your. (NUM_21:22)

OET-RV: 22 “Let us pass through your country. We won’t turn off into any field or vineyard. We won’t take water from any well. We’ll stay on the king’s highway until we’ve exited at your northern border.” (NUM 21:22)

2 SAM 17:18 contextual word gloss=‘a_well’ word gloss=‘well’ OSHB 2 SAM 17:18 word 15

OET-LV: 18 And_he/it _saw a _young _man DOM_them and_he _told to_ʼAⱱīshālōm and_they _went both _of_them quickly and_they _came to the_house _of a _man in_Baḩurīm and_to/for_him/it a _well in_his _of_courtyard and_they _went _down there. (SA2_17:18)

OET-RV: 18 But a young man saw them and informed Abshalom, but meanwhile the two of them went quickly and got to the house of a man in Bahurim where they went down into the well in his courtyard. (SA2 17:18)