Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #153388

OSHB 2 Sam 20:25 סֹפֵר (şofēr) Strongs=5608 b Lemma=‘סֹפֵר’
contextual word gloss=‘[was]_secretary’ word gloss=‘secretary’
Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1022 TimeSeries=Reign_of_David

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Other uses (2) of identical word form סֹפֵר (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘סֹפֵר’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘[was]_a_scribe’, ‘[was]_secretary’, ‘a_muster-officer’.

JDG 5:14 contextual word gloss=‘a_muster-officer’ word gloss=‘marshal's’ OSHB JDG 5:14 word 15

OET-LV: 14 From ʼEfrayim who_their _root _of_those was_in_ˊAmālēq after_you Binyāmīn among_your(pl)_of_people(s) from Mākīr they _came _down commanders and_from_Zəⱱulun those _who_march with_the_rod _of a _muster-officer. (JDG_5:14)

OET-RV: 14 From Efrayim their root was with Amalek.
⇔ After you, Benyamin, among your people.
⇔ From (Menashsheh’s) Makir, the commanders came down.
⇔ And from Zebulun, those who march carrying an officer’s staff. (JDG 5:14)

EZRA 7:6 contextual word gloss=‘[was]_a_scribe’ word gloss=‘scribe’ OSHB EZRA 7:6 word 6

OET-LV: 6 That ˊEzrāʼ he _came _up from_Bāⱱel and_he was_a _scribe skilled in_the _law _of Mosheh which he _had _given YHWH the _god _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) and_he _gave to_him/it the_king according_to _the _hand _of YHWH his/its_god on/upon/above_him/it all _of request _of_his. (EZR_7:6)

OET-RV: 6 was a skilled expert in the law that Yisrael’s god Yahweh had given through Mosheh (Moses). With the favour of his god Yahweh helping Ezra, the king had granted all his requests, and he travelled from Babylon to Yerushalem. (EZR 7:6)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘סֹפֵר’’ have 5 different glosses: ‘[is_one_who]_counted’, ‘[was]_a_scribe’, ‘[was]_secretary’, ‘a_muster-officer’, ‘the_scribe_of’.