Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #123782

OSHB Ruth 1:1 שְׁפֹט (shəfoţ) Strongs=8199 Lemma=‘שָׁפַט’
contextual word gloss=‘of_the_judging’ word gloss=‘ruled’
Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct

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Only use of identical word form ‘שְׁפֹט’ (Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שְׁפֹט’ (Morphology=Vqc PoS=qal_verb Type=infinitive_construct) is always and only glossed as ‘of_the_judging’.

RUTH 1:1 contextual word gloss=‘of_the_judging’ word gloss=‘ruled’ OSHB RUTH 1:1 word 3

OET-LV:  And_he/it _was in_the _days _of the _judging of_the _judges and_he/it _was a _famine on _the_earth and_he/it _went a _man from food/grain/bread Yəhūdāh/(Judah) to_sojourn in_the _region(s)_of Mōʼāⱱ he and_his/its_woman/wife and_the _two _of sons _of_his. (RUT_1:1)

OET-RV:  Back in the time when the tribal leaders ruled Yisrael (Israel), there was a drought which caused a shortage of food, so a man from the town of Beyt-Lehem (Bethlehem) in the Yehudah (Judah) region went to live in the country of Moab for a while, taking his wife and their two sons. (RUT 1:1)