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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Haman · Hammedatha
OET-LV The_ten_of the_sons_of Haman the_son_of Hammedatha the_harasser_of the_Yəhūdī they_killed and_on_plunder not they_stretched_out DOM hand_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Those were the ten sons of Haman (son of Hamedata), the enemy of the Yehudim, but the Yehudim didn’t take their possessions.
When the chosen day arrived, the Jews organized themselves, fought their enemies, and killed many of them. Then Esther begged the king to allow the Jews in Susa to fight their enemies again on the following day. He agreed. After that the Jews celebrated.
but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
However, they did not take for themselves any of the things belonging to the people they had killed.
lay a hand on: That is, “take for themselves” or “seize.”
plunder: See note on 3:13c.
The Jews did not seize their enemies’ property, although the king had permitted this (see 8:11).
Note 1 topic: translate-numbers
עֲ֠שֶׂרֶת בְּנֵ֨י
(Some words not found in UHB: ten_of sons_of Haman son_of Hammedatha enemy_of of,the_Jews killed and,on,plunder not lay DOM hand_of,their )
Alternate translation: [the 10 sons]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / distinguish
צֹרֵ֥ר הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים
enemy_of (Some words not found in UHB: ten_of sons_of Haman son_of Hammedatha enemy_of of,the_Jews killed and,on,plunder not lay DOM hand_of,their )
This phrase gives clarifying information about Haman. Alternate translation: [the enemy of the Jews]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
לֹ֥א שָׁלְח֖וּ אֶת־יָדָֽם
not (Some words not found in UHB: ten_of sons_of Haman son_of Hammedatha enemy_of of,the_Jews killed and,on,plunder not lay DOM hand_of,their )
Here the expression to stretch out a hand means to take something from another person. Alternate translation: [they did not take]
וּבַ֨בִּזָּ֔ה
(Some words not found in UHB: ten_of sons_of Haman son_of Hammedatha enemy_of of,the_Jews killed and,on,plunder not lay DOM hand_of,their )
Alternate translation: [But … their possessions]
OET-LV The_ten_of the_sons_of Haman the_son_of Hammedatha the_harasser_of the_Yəhūdī they_killed and_on_plunder not they_stretched_out DOM hand_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Those were the ten sons of Haman (son of Hamedata), the enemy of the Yehudim, but the Yehudim didn’t take their possessions.
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.
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