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OET (OET-LV) And some of them were_persuaded and they_were_joined the with_Paulos and the Silas, both a_ great _multitude of_the ones Hellaʸns worshipping, and leading a_few women the not.
OET (OET-RV) Some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas, along with a big group of godly Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπείσθησαν
some of them /were/_persuaded
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: “some of the Jews believed” or “some of the Jews understood”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
τῶν & σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων
˱of˲_the_‹ones› & worshipping Greeks
Here the expression worshiping God describes Gentiles (non-Jews) who worshiped the God of Israel and attended the synagogue. See how you translated the expression in 16:14. Alternate translation: “Greeks who sincerely worshiped the God of Israel”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
οὐκ ὀλίγαι
not /a/_few
Luke is using a figure of speech that expresses a positive meaning by using a negative word together with a word that is the opposite of the intended meaning. Alternate translation: “many”
17:4 God-fearing Greek men: See study note on 10:2.
• Luke regularly draws attention to women who joined the Christian movement (17:4, 12, 34; see also 5:14; 8:12; 16:13-15, 31-34; 18:26; 21:9).
OET (OET-LV) And some of them were_persuaded and they_were_joined the with_Paulos and the Silas, both a_ great _multitude of_the ones Hellaʸns worshipping, and leading a_few women the not.
OET (OET-RV) Some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas, along with a big group of godly Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.