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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Haman · Mordecai (EST 2:5)
OET-LV And_ Haman _he/it_saw if/because_that not Mordəkay was_kneeling and_bowing_down to_him/it and_ Haman _he_was_filled rage.
OET (OET-RV) When Haman saw that Mordekai would not bow down to him or show him reverence, he was furious.
The next event in the story was that the king promoted one of his officials called Haman to the highest position in the land, next to the king himself. The king ordered all his servants to bow down to Haman in respect to him, but Mordecai refused to do this because he was a Jew. When Haman heard about this, he was angry and planned to destroy all the Jews in the empire. He cast lots to find out the best day to choose for killing the Jews.
When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
When Haman saw that Mordecai refused to kneel or bow his head to the ground to show him respect, he became very angry.
bow down: See note on 3:2a.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיַּ֣רְא הָמָ֔ן
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw Haman that/for/because/then/when not Mārəddəkay bow_down and,bowing_down to=him/it and,he_was_filled Haman rage )
Here, seeing means knowledge, notice, attention, or judgment. This phrase means that Haman learned about this.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
אֵ֣ין מָרְדֳּכַ֔י כֹּרֵ֥עַ וּמִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖ה ל֑וֹ
not (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw Haman that/for/because/then/when not Mārəddəkay bow_down and,bowing_down to=him/it and,he_was_filled Haman rage )
These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The repetition is used to emphasize how serious an offense this was. You could combine them as UST does and say, “Mordecai was refusing to bow down to him.” Alternate translation: [Mordecai would not bow down or lie on the ground]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיִּמָּלֵ֥א הָמָ֖ן חֵמָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_saw Haman that/for/because/then/when not Mārəddəkay bow_down and,bowing_down to=him/it and,he_was_filled Haman rage )
Here, Haman’s rage is spoken of as something that could fill him up. You could say that he was furious or extremely angry.
OET-LV And_ Haman _he/it_saw if/because_that not Mordəkay was_kneeling and_bowing_down to_him/it and_ Haman _he_was_filled rage.
OET (OET-RV) When Haman saw that Mordekai would not bow down to him or show him reverence, he was furious.
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 Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.