OET interlinear ACTs 10:17

uW Translation Notes:

ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει ὁ Πέτρος, τί ἂν εἴη τὸ ὅραμα ὃ εἶδεν

by himself ˓was˒_thoroughly_perplexing ¬the Peter what (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὡς Δέ ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει ὁ Πέτρος τί ἄν εἴη τό ὅραμα ὅ εἶδεν ἰδού οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ὑπό τοῦ Κορνηλίου διερωτήσαντες τήν οἰκίαν τοῦ Σίμωνος ἐπέστησαν ἐπί τόν πυλῶνα)

Alternate translation: [Peter was wondering how God could have given him a vision like that]

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἰδοὺ, οἱ ἄνδρες

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὡς Δέ ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει ὁ Πέτρος τί ἄν εἴη τό ὅραμα ὅ εἶδεν ἰδού οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ὑπό τοῦ Κορνηλίου διερωτήσαντες τήν οἰκίαν τοῦ Σίμωνος ἐπέστησαν ἐπί τόν πυλῶνα)

Luke is using the term behold to focus readers’ attention on how suddenly these men appeared. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation. Alternate translation: [just then the men]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ὑπὸ τοῦ Κορνηλίου

the ¬which ˓having_been˒_sent_out (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὡς Δέ ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει ὁ Πέτρος τί ἄν εἴη τό ὅραμα ὅ εἶδεν ἰδού οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ὑπό τοῦ Κορνηλίου διερωτήσαντες τήν οἰκίαν τοῦ Σίμωνος ἐπέστησαν ἐπί τόν πυλῶνα)

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [whom Cornelius had sent]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐπέστησαν ἐπὶ τὸν πυλῶνα

stood_by (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὡς Δέ ἐν ἑαυτῷ διηπόρει ὁ Πέτρος τί ἄν εἴη τό ὅραμα ὅ εἶδεν ἰδού οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ὑπό τοῦ Κορνηλίου διερωτήσαντες τήν οἰκίαν τοῦ Σίμωνος ἐπέστησαν ἐπί τόν πυλῶνα)

The implication is that the house of Simon the tanner had a wall around it and that there was a gate in the wall that people could use to enter the property. Alternate translation: [stood before the gate to the house]