OET interlinear EST 2:11

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וּ⁠בְ⁠כָל־י֣וֹם וָ⁠י֔וֹם

and=on/over=all day and,day

Alternate translation: “every single day”

מָרְדֳּכַי֙ מִתְהַלֵּ֔ךְ

Mārəddəkay walking_around/wandering

Express this in the way your language describes an action that someone repeats over and over. For example, you can say, “Mordecai would walk around.”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

לִ⁠פְנֵ֖י חֲצַ֣ר

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before courtyard

Here, face means the front of a place. So you could say, “in front of the courtyard.”

בֵּית־הַ⁠נָּשִׁ֑ים

house_of the,women

Alternate translation: “the harem for virgins”

Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

לָ⁠דַ֨עַת֙ אֶת־שְׁל֣וֹם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וּ⁠מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֖ה בָּֽ⁠הּ

to=know DOM how_~_was ʼEşttēr and,how happening in/on/at/with,her

This is background information that explains why Mordecai would walk around in front of the courtyard. It was so that he could ask people who were going into or coming out of the courtyard how Esther was doing. If it would be helpful in your language, you could place this first in the verse because it explains the rest of what is said.

שְׁל֣וֹם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר

how_~_was ʼEşttēr

Alternate translation: “how Esther was doing” or “about Esther’s well-being”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

שְׁל֣וֹם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וּ⁠מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֖ה בָּֽ⁠הּ

how_~_was ʼEşttēr and,how happening in/on/at/with,her

These two phrases mean similar things. The story is using the repetition to emphasize how concerned Mordecai was for Esther. You could combine them and say, “how Esther was doing” or “if Esther was all right.”