Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #249752

OSHB Psa 39:6 טְפָחוֹת (ţəfāḩōt) Strongs=2947 Lemma=‘טַפְחָה’
contextual word gloss=‘handbreadths’ word gloss=‘handbreadths’
Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute

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Only use of identical word form ‘טְפָחוֹת’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘טְפָחוֹת’ (Morphology=Ncmpa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘handbreadths’.

PSA 39:6 contextual word gloss=‘handbreadths’ word gloss=‘handbreadths’ OSHB PSA 39:6 word 2

OET-LV: 6  HERE handbreadths you _have _made days _of_my and_lifespan _of_my is_like_nothing before_you is_only all _of vanity all _of humankind which_stands Şelāh. (PSA_39:6)

OET-RV: 6 Surely every person walks around like a shadow.
⇔ Surely everyone hurries about to accumulate riches although they don’t know who’ll inherit them. (PSA 39:6)