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Hebrew wordlink #136540

OSHB 1 Sam 21:5 נִשְׁמְרוּ (nishmərū) Strongs=8104 Lemma=‘שָׁמַר’
contextual word gloss=‘they_have_kept_themselves’ word gloss=‘kept’
Morphology=VNp3cp PoS=niphal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural
Year=-1062 TimeSeries=Reign_of_Saul

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Only use of identical word form ‘נִשְׁמְרוּ’ (Morphology=VNp3cp PoS=niphal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘נִשְׁמְרוּ’ (Morphology=VNp3cp PoS=niphal_verb Type=perfect_(qatal) Person=third Gender=common Number=plural) is always and only glossed as ‘they_have_kept_themselves’.

1 SAM 21:5 contextual word gloss=‘they_have_kept_themselves’ word gloss=‘kept’ OSHB 1 SAM 21:5 word 18

OET-LV: 5  and_he _answered the_priest/officer DOM Dāvid and_he/it _said there_is_not bread _of profaneness to under hand _of_my if/because (if) bread _of holiness there_is if they _have _kept _themselves the _young_men only from_a _woman. (SA1_21:5)

OET-RV: 5 “There’s definitely been no women near us for three days,” David told the priest. “That’s how I always do missions. The men have been pure, even though it was a common journey, and today even more so.” (SA1 21:5)