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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Phillip the Evangelist
Used in these topics: Baptism
OET-LV And the eunuch answering to_ the _Filippos said:
I_am_beseeching of_you concerning whom the prophet is_saying this?
Concerning himself or concerning someone other?
OET (OET-RV) “Now tell me,” said the official, “who was Yeshayah (Isaiah) talking about? Was he talking about himself or someone else?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ εὐνοῦχος τῷ Φιλίππῳ εἶπεν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀποκριθείς Δέ ὁ εὐνοῦχος τῷ Φιλίππῳ εἶπεν Δέομαι σοῦ περί τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο Περί ἑαυτοῦ ἤ περί ἑτέρου τινός)
Together the words answering and said mean that the Ethiopian official responded to Philip’s question about whether he understood what he was reading. Alternate translation: [The eunuch responded to Philip’s question by saying]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
δέομαί σου
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀποκριθείς Δέ ὁ εὐνοῦχος τῷ Φιλίππῳ εἶπεν Δέομαι σοῦ περί τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο Περί ἑαυτοῦ ἤ περί ἑτέρου τινός)
The Ethiopian official is using a polite, idiomatic expression. Alternate translation: [Please tell me]
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
ἑτέρου τινός
other someone
In this context, the pronoun other means “other person.” Alternate translation: [some other person]
OET-LV And the eunuch answering to_ the _Filippos said:
I_am_beseeching of_you concerning whom the prophet is_saying this?
Concerning himself or concerning someone other?
OET (OET-RV) “Now tell me,” said the official, “who was Yeshayah (Isaiah) talking about? Was he talking about himself or someone else?”
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.
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