Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #266252

OSHB Psa 123:2 שִׁפְחָה (shifḩāh) Strongs=8198 Lemma=‘שִׁפְחָה’
contextual word gloss=‘a_female_slave’ word gloss=‘maid’
Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute

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Other uses (3) of identical word form שִׁפְחָה (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שִׁפְחָה’ (Morphology=Ncfsa PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘[is]_a_female_slave’, ‘a_female_slave’, ‘a_maidservant’.

GEN 16:1 contextual word gloss=‘a_maidservant’ word gloss=‘female_~_servant’ OSHB GEN 16:1 word 8

OET-LV: 16 and_Sarai the _wife _of ʼAⱱrām not she _had _borne _children to_him/it and_belonged_to_her a _maidservant from _Miʦrayim/(Miʦrayim) and_her _of_name was_Hāgār. (GEN_16:1)

OET-RV: 16 Now Abram’s wife Sarai hadn’t been able to give him any children, but she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar, (GEN 16:1)

GEN 29:24 contextual word gloss=‘a_maidservant’ word gloss=‘maid’ OSHB GEN 29:24 word 9

OET-LV: 24 And_ Lāⱱān _he/it _gave to/for_her/it DOM Zilpah maidservant _of_his to_Lēʼāh daughter _of_his a _maidservant. (GEN_29:24)

OET-RV: 24 (Lavan also gave his female slave Zilpah to Le’ah to be her personal slave.) (GEN 29:24)

LEV 19:20 contextual word gloss=‘[is]_a_female_slave’ word gloss=‘slave’ OSHB LEV 19:20 word 9

OET-LV: 20 and_a _man if/because he _will _lie with a _woman a _laying _of seed and_she is_a _female _slave intended for_a _man and_indeed _(be _released) not she _had _been _released or freedom not it _had _been _given to/for_her/it compensation it _will _be not they _will _be _put _to _death if/because not she _had _been _given _freedom. (LEV_19:20)

OET-RV: 20 If a man impregnates a woman who’s destined to be someone else’s slave and she hasn’t been freed, compensation needs to be paid. They mustn’t be executed, because she hadn’t been freed. (LEV 19:20)