6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Genesis 38:6. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Word Entries
41
Editorial Notes
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Westminster Leningrad Codex
Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וַיִּקַּ֧ח יְהוּדָ֛ה אִשָּׁ֖ה לְעֵ֣ר בְּכוֹר֑וֹ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ תָּמָֽר׃
7 word entries
וַיִּקַּ֧ח
אִשָּׁ֖ה
לְעֵ֣ר
בְּכוֹר֑וֹ
וּשְׁמָ֖הּ
Greek Brenton Septuagint
Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἰούδας γυναῖκα Ἢρ τῷ πρωτοτόκῳ αὐτοῦ, ᾗ ὄνομα Θάμαρ.
11 word entries
Καὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καί
- Transliteration
- kai
- Morphology
- coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and, also, even
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Coordinating conjunction.
- Strong's
- G2532
- Occurrences
- 56730
ἔλαβεν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- λαμβάνω
- Transliteration
- elaben
- Morphology
- verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it took, received
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- To take, receive, or obtain.
- Occurrences
- 894
Ἰούδας
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- Ἰούδας
- Transliteration
- Ioudas
- Morphology
- proper noun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- Judah/Judas
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Judah or Judas depending on context.
- Occurrences
- 221
γυναῖκα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- γυνή
- Transliteration
- gynaika
- Morphology
- noun, feminine accusative singular
- Gloss
- woman, wife
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Woman or wife.
- Occurrences
- 889
Ἢρ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Ἢρ
- Transliteration
- er
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ἢρ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 9
τῷ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
πρωτοτόκῳ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- πρωτοτόκῳ
- Transliteration
- prototoko
- Morphology
- dative singular masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- to/for ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 9
αὐτοῦ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- αὐτός
- Transliteration
- autos
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, himself
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- Third-person personal/intensive pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 26672
ᾗ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὅς
- Transliteration
- he
- Morphology
- relative pronoun, dative feminine singular
- Gloss
- by which, where
- Part of Speech
- relative pronoun/adverb
- Definition
- Relative pronoun or adverbial relative form.
- Occurrences
- 4123
ὄνομα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὄνομα
- Transliteration
- onoma
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
- Gloss
- name
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Name.
- Occurrences
- 908
Θάμαρ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- Θάμαρ
- Transliteration
- thamar
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Θάμαρ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 8
Targum Onkelos Torah
Aramaic · Targum Onkelos · Public Domain
Coverage: Torah
Ancient Aramaic Torah translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as the Hebrew original text.
וּנְסִיב יְהוּדָה אִתְּתָא לְעֵר בּוּכְרֵהּ וּשְׁמַהּ תָּמָר
7 word entries
וּנְסִיב
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נסיב
- Transliteration
- wnsyb
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 66
יְהוּדָה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יהודה
- Transliteration
- yhwdh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 48
אִתְּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתתא
- Transliteration
- 'tt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 116
לְעֵר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לער
- Transliteration
- l'r
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
בּוּכְרֵהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- וכרה
- Transliteration
- bwkrh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 2
וּשְׁמַהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שמה
- Transliteration
- wshmh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 67
תָּמָר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תמר
- Transliteration
- tmr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 5
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܢܣ̣ܒ ܝܗܘܕܐ ܐܢܬܬܐ ܠܥܝܪ ܒܘܟܪܗ. ܘܫܡܗ̇ ܬܡܪ.
7 word entries
ܘܢܣ̣ܒ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- WNS#B
- Morphology
- W-NSB[
- Occurrences
- 0
ܝܗܘܕܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- JHWD>
- Morphology
- JHWD>/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܐܢܬܬܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- >NTT>
- Morphology
- >NT(>/T~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܠܥܝܪ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- L<JR
- Morphology
- L-<JR/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܒܘܟܪܗ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- BWKRH
- Morphology
- BWKR/-H
- Occurrences
- 0
ܘܫܡܗ̇
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- WCMH^
- Morphology
- W-CM/-H=
- Occurrences
- 0
ܬܡܪ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- TMR
- Morphology
- TMR/
- Occurrences
- 0
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Dedit autem Judas uxorem primogenito suo Her, nomine Thamar.
9 word entries
dedit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- do
- Transliteration
- dedit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2116
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
Iudas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Iuda
- Transliteration
- Iudas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 970
uxorem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uxor
- Transliteration
- uxorem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 505
primogenito
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- primogenitus
- Transliteration
- primogenito
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 136
suo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suus
- Transliteration
- suo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5783
Her
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Her
- Transliteration
- Her
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 10
nomine
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nomen
- Transliteration
- nomine
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1130
Thamar
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Thamar
- Transliteration
- Thamar
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 22
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Genesis 24:3
I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
2 relevance votesMatthew 1:3
Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
2 relevance votesGenesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
2 relevance votes