InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Acts C1 C2 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28
Acts 5 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41
OET-LV And immediately she_fell before the feet of_him, and stopped_breathing.
And having_come_in, the young_men found her dead, and having_brought_out her, they_buried her with the husband of_her.
OET (OET-RV) Sapfira immediately fell down in front of him and stopped breathing. Then the young men came in and found her dead, so they took her body out and buried her with her husband.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
ἔπεσεν & πρὸς τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξέψυξεν
˱she˲_fell & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἔπεσεν Δέ παραχρῆμα πρός τούς πόδας αὐτοῦ καί ἐξέψυξεν εἰσελθόντες Δέ οἱ νεανίσκοι εὗρον αὐτήν νεκράν καί ἐξενέγκαντες ἔθαψαν πρός τόν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς)
The word translated as expired means that Sapphira “breathed out for the last time.” It is a mild way of saying that she died. Alternate translation: [she fell down at his feet and died]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / events
ἔπεσεν & πρὸς τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξέψυξεν
˱she˲_fell & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἔπεσεν Δέ παραχρῆμα πρός τούς πόδας αὐτοῦ καί ἐξέψυξεν εἰσελθόντες Δέ οἱ νεανίσκοι εὗρον αὐτήν νεκράν καί ἐξενέγκαντες ἔθαψαν πρός τόν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς)
Sapphira fell down because she died. She did not die because she fell down. To make this clear in your translation, it may be helpful to say first that she died and then that she fell. Alternate translation: [she died and fell down at his feet]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἔπεσεν & πρὸς τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ
˱she˲_fell & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἔπεσεν Δέ παραχρῆμα πρός τούς πόδας αὐτοῦ καί ἐξέψυξεν εἰσελθόντες Δέ οἱ νεανίσκοι εὗρον αὐτήν νεκράν καί ἐξενέγκαντες ἔθαψαν πρός τόν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς)
This means that she fell to the ground in front of Peter. This expression should not be confused with the idea of “falling down at a person’s feet,” that is, bowing down to the ground in front of someone as a sign of humility. Alternate translation: [she collapsed onto the ground in front of him]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
οἱ νεανίσκοι
the young_men
See how you translated this expression in 5:6. However, it may not be necessary to explain again here who these young men were in terms of their role in the community. Instead, you could identify them by their role in the story. Alternate translation: [the same young men who had buried Ananias]
OET-LV And immediately she_fell before the feet of_him, and stopped_breathing.
And having_come_in, the young_men found her dead, and having_brought_out her, they_buried her with the husband of_her.
OET (OET-RV) Sapfira immediately fell down in front of him and stopped breathing. Then the young men came in and found her dead, so they took her body out and buried her with her husband.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.