Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #143646

OSHB 2 Sam 3:38 שַׂר (sar) Strongs=8269 Lemma=‘שַׂר’
contextual word gloss=‘a_leader’ word gloss=‘chief’
Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-1048 TimeSeries=Reign_of_David

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Other uses (1) of identical word form שַׂר (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘שַׂר’ (Morphology=Ncmsa PoS=common_noun Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) has 2 different glosses: ‘a_chief’, ‘a_leader’.

EXO 2:14 contextual word gloss=‘a_chief’ word gloss=‘chief’ OSHB EXO 2:14 word 5

OET-LV: 14 And_he/it _said who did_he _appoint _you to_a _man a _chief and_a _judge over_us to_kill_me are_you saying just_as you _killed DOM the_from _Miʦrayim/(Miʦrayim) and_ Mosheh _he _was _afraid and_he _thought truly it _is _known the_matter. (EXO_2:14)

OET-RV: 14 “Who made you the ruler and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Mosheh was afraid because he realised that what he’d done had probably become widely known. (EXO 2:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘שַׂר’’ have 22 different glosses: ‘-Sharezer’, ‘Sar-’, ‘Sharezer’, ‘[am]_the_commander_of’, ‘[the]_commander_of’, ‘[the]_leader_of’, ‘[was]_an_official_of’, ‘[was]_the_commander_of’, ‘a_chief’, ‘a_commander_of’, ‘a_leader’, ‘a_prince_of’, ‘chief’, ‘commander_of’, ‘of_the_chief_of’, ‘of_the_commander_of’, ‘prince_of’, ‘the_chief_of’, ‘the_commander_of’, ‘the_governor_of’, ‘the_official_of’, ‘the_prince_of’.