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OET (OET-LV) reply_an he_sent Oh/the_king to Rəḩūm master of_command and_Shimshai scribe_the and_rest associates_their who [were]_dwelling in/on/at/with_Shomrōn and_rest of_the_region_beyond river_the peace and_now.
Note 1 topic: translate-names
רְח֤וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵם֙
Rəḩūm officer commanding
Rehum is the name of a man and a lord of decree is his title. See how you translated them in 4:8. Alternate translation: “Rehum, the royal deputy”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י סָֽפְרָ֔א
and,Shimshai scribe,the
Shimshai is the name of a man and scribe is his title. See how you translated them in 4:8. Alternate translation: “Shimshai the state secretary”
Note 3 topic: translate-names
וּשְׁאָר֙ כְּנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹן דִּ֥י יָתְבִ֖ין בְּשָֽׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֧ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה
and,rest associates,their that/who live in/on/at/with,Samaria and,rest province_beyond river,the
As in 4:10, this could mean one of two things. (1) It could be referring to two groups: (a) the fellow officials of Rehum and Shimshai in the region of Samaria, and (b) the people groups living in the rest of the province of Beyond-the-River, however they came to live there. This is the reading of ULT. Alternate translation: “and the rest of their fellow officials, and the people groups living in Beyond-the-River” or (2) It could be referring to one group, the fellow officials of Rehum and Shimshai who live in the region of Samaria and in other parts of the province. This is the reading of UST. Alternate translation: “the rest of their fellow officials in Samaria and in the rest of Beyond-the-River” It would probably be clearest for your readers if you followed the same reading here as you did in 4:10, whether that of ULT or UST.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וּשְׁאָר֙ כְּנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹן
and,rest associates,their
As in 4:7 and 4:9, the term companions here indicates people who hold similar positions. Alternate translation: “and the rest of their associates” or “and the rest of their fellow officials”
שְׁלָ֖ם
greetings
Peace was a conventional greeting or good wish that senders often included at the beginning of a letter at this time. (It is the Aramaic term that corresponds to the Hebrew expression “Shalom.”) If your language has a similar expression that it uses for the same purpose, you can use it here. Alternate translations: “greetings” or “I hope all is well with you”
Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
וּכְעֶֽת
and,now
As in 4:10 and 4:11, this phrase translates an Aramaic expression that introduces the main business of a letter. If your language has a comparable expression, then use it here. If it would not use such an expression here, then you do not need to represent it in your translation.
4:6-23 These verses are a parenthetical discussion of later opposition to Jewish rebuilding efforts. The account actually belongs with much later events in the reign of Xerxes (486–465 BC) and Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC), but it is included here because it fits with the theme of opposition. Chronologically, 4:6 fits between chs 6 and 7, while 4:7-23 fits before Neh 1.
OET (OET-LV) reply_an he_sent Oh/the_king to Rəḩūm master of_command and_Shimshai scribe_the and_rest associates_their who [were]_dwelling in/on/at/with_Shomrōn and_rest of_the_region_beyond river_the peace and_now.
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.