Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #124844

OSHB Ruth 3:13 חַי (ḩay) Strongs=2416 a Lemma=‘חַי’
contextual word gloss=‘[by]_the_life’ possible word glosses=‘he / it_lived’
Morphology=Ncbsa PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1307

Note: These word pages enable you to click through to the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) that the Open English Translation Old Testament is translated from. The OSHB is based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC). (We are still searching for a digitized facsimile of the Leningradensis manuscript that we can easily link to. See this list and this archive for now.) This is all part of the commitment of the Open English Translation team to be transparent about all levels of the Bible translation process right back to the original manuscripts.

Only use of identical word form ‘חַי’ (Morphology=Ncbsa PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘חַי’ (Morphology=Ncbsa PoS=common_noun Gender=both Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘[by]_the_life’.

RUTH 3:13 contextual word gloss=‘[by]_the_life’ possible word glosses=‘he / it_lived’ OSHB RUTH 3:13 word 15

OET-LV: 13 Stay the_night and_it _was in_morning if he_will _redeem _you good let _him _redeem and_if not he _will _be _willing to_redeem_you and_I_will _redeem _you I by_the _life of_YHWH lie _down until the_morning. (RUT_3:13)

OET-RV: 13 Stay here for the rest of the night, and then in the morning, if he’ll accept then he can marry you. But if he’s not willing to take care of you, then as Yahweh lives, I’ll do it myself. Now lie down here until morning.” (RUT 3:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘חַי’’ have 11 different glosses: ‘[am]_alive’, ‘[by]_the_life’, ‘[is]_alive’, ‘[is]_living’, ‘[the]_living’, ‘[was]_alive’, ‘alive’, ‘he_lived’, ‘he_lives’, ‘living’, ‘living_[thing]’.