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 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43
OET-LV And having_fallen on the ground, he_heard a_voice saying to_him:
Saulos, Saulos, why are_you_persecuting me?
OET (OET-RV) He dropped to his knees[fn] and heard a voice calling, “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why are you persecuting me?”
9:4 It seems most likely that Paul and company were walking to Damascus (and not on horseback despite paintings by Caravaggio and others). The journey of somewhere around 300km would have taken around two weeks.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί πεσών ἐπί τήν γῆν ἤκουσεν φωνήν λέγουσαν αὐτῷ Σαούλ Σαούλ τί μέ διώκεις)
Saul did not fall down accidentally. This could mean: (1) that the light caused him to fall to the ground. Alternate translation: [falling to the ground stunned by the dazzling light]; (2) that Saul fainted when he saw the light. Alternate translation: [falling faint because of the glorious light]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί με διώκεις
why (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί πεσών ἐπί τήν γῆν ἤκουσεν φωνήν λέγουσαν αὐτῷ Σαούλ Σαούλ τί μέ διώκεις)
The voice is using the question form to rebuke Saul. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate its words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the rebuke in another way. Alternate translation: [you should not be persecuting me!]
OET-LV And having_fallen on the ground, he_heard a_voice saying to_him:
Saulos, Saulos, why are_you_persecuting me?
OET (OET-RV) He dropped to his knees[fn] and heard a voice calling, “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why are you persecuting me?”
9:4 It seems most likely that Paul and company were walking to Damascus (and not on horseback despite paintings by Caravaggio and others). The journey of somewhere around 300km would have taken around two weeks.
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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