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OSHB Psa 137:5 תִּשְׁכַּח (tishkaḩ) Strongs=7911 Lemma=‘שָׁכַח’
 contextual word gloss=‘may_it_forget’ word gloss=‘forget’
 Morphology=Vqi3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular
  Year=-541

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Only use of identical word form ‘תִּשְׁכַּח’ (Morphology=Vqi3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘תִּשְׁכַּח’ (Morphology=Vqi3fs PoS=qal_verb Type=imperfect_(yiqtol) Person=third Gender=feminine Number=singular) is always and only glossed as ‘may_it_forget’.

PSA 137:5 contextual word gloss=‘may_it_forget’ word gloss=‘forget’ OSHB PSA 137:5 word 4

OET-LV: 5 If I_will_forget_you Oh_Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) may_it_forget hand_of_my_right. (PSA_137:5)

OET-RV: 5 If I forget about you, Yerushalem,
 ⇔ may my right hand forget how to do anything. (PSA 137:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘שָׁכַח’’ have 5 different glosses: ‘do_you_forget?’, ‘forget’, ‘may_it_forget’, ‘you_should_forget’, ‘you_will_forget’.