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 C5 C6 C7 C8 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28
Acts 9 V1 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Damascus
OET-LV And in the time to_be_going, it_became him to_be_nearing to_ the _Damaskos, and suddenly a_light from the sky.
flashed_around.
him.
OET (OET-RV) On his journey as he approached Damesek, suddenly light from the sky flashed around him.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐν & τῷ πορεύεσθαι
in & the_‹time› ˓to_be˒_going
Luke means implicitly that the high priest gave Saul the letters he asked for and that Saul then left Jerusalem to go to Damascus. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: [as he was traveling to Damascus with letters that the high priest gave him]
Note 2 topic: writing-newevent
ἐγένετο
˱it˲_became
Luke uses the phrase it happened that to introduce a significant development in this story. Use a word, phrase, or other method in your language that is natural for this purpose.
αὐτὸν περιήστραψεν φῶς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἐν Δέ τῷ πορεύεσθαι ἐγένετο αὐτόν ἐγγίζειν τῇ Δαμασκῷ ἐξαίφνης τέ αὐτόν περιήστραψεν φῶς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ)
Alternate translation: [a light from heaven shone all around him]
ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
from the sky
This could mean: (1) heaven, where God lives or (2) the sky. The first meaning is preferable. Use that meaning if your language has a separate word for it.
OET-LV And in the time to_be_going, it_became him to_be_nearing to_ the _Damaskos, and suddenly a_light from the sky.
flashed_around.
him.
OET (OET-RV) On his journey as he approached Damesek, suddenly light from the sky flashed around him.
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.