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OET (OET-RV) Now Stefanos (one of the seven) was full of grace and power and was doing miracles and amazing demonstrations of God’s power among the people.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
Στέφανος δὲ
Stephen (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Στέφανος Δέ πλήρης χάριτος καί δυνάμεως ἐποίει τέρατα καί σημεῖα μεγάλα ἐν τῷ λαῷ)
Luke uses this phrase to introduce Stephen as the main character in this part of the story. Your language may have its own way of doing that. If so, you could use it here in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
Στέφανος & πλήρης χάριτος καὶ δυνάμεως, ἐποίει
Stephen & full ˱of˲_grace (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Στέφανος Δέ πλήρης χάριτος καί δυνάμεως ἐποίει τέρατα καί σημεῖα μεγάλα ἐν τῷ λαῷ)
Luke is speaking as if Stephen were a container that grace and power were filling. Alternate translation: [Stephen had abundant grace and power, and so he was doing]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
Στέφανος & πλήρης χάριτος καὶ δυνάμεως, ἐποίει
Stephen & full ˱of˲_grace (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Στέφανος Δέ πλήρης χάριτος καί δυνάμεως ἐποίει τέρατα καί σημεῖα μεγάλα ἐν τῷ λαῷ)
Luke may be using the two words grace and power together to express a single idea. The word grace would describe the character of the power that Stephen had. Specifically, it would be power that God was giving him. Alternate translation: [Stephen, full of gracious power, was doing] or [Stephen, full of power from God, was doing]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
Στέφανος & πλήρης χάριτος καὶ δυνάμεως, ἐποίει
Stephen & full ˱of˲_grace (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Στέφανος Δέ πλήρης χάριτος καί δυνάμεως ἐποίει τέρατα καί σημεῖα μεγάλα ἐν τῷ λαῷ)
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the ideas behind the words grace and power, you could express the same ideas with adverbs. Alternate translation: [Stephen was supernaturally and powerfully doing]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
τέρατα καὶ σημεῖα μεγάλα
wonders (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Στέφανος Δέ πλήρης χάριτος καί δυνάμεως ἐποίει τέρατα καί σημεῖα μεγάλα ἐν τῷ λαῷ)
The terms wonders and signs mean similar things. Luke is using them together for emphasis. See how you translated the similar expression in 2:22. Alternate translation: [many great miracles]
OET (OET-RV) Now Stefanos (one of the seven) was full of grace and power and was doing miracles and amazing demonstrations of God’s power among the people.
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.