OET interlinear EZRA 5:17

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

וּ⁠כְעַ֞ן

and=now

As in 4:10 and 4:11, and now translates an Aramaic expression that introduces the main business of a letter. In this case, it comes near the end of the letter. If your language has a comparable expression that it uses for this same purpose, you can use that in your translation.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

הֵ֧ן עַל־מַלְכָּ֣⁠א טָ֗ב

if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Oh/the=king pleases

This is an idiom that means “if the king thinks that this is a good idea” or “if this advice is acceptable to the king.” Alternate translation: “if it seems good to you, O king”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

הֵ֧ן עַל־מַלְכָּ֣⁠א טָ֗ב

if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Oh/the=king pleases

Tattenai and his associates address the king in third person as a form of respect. If this is confusing in your language, you can use the second person and indicate respect in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “if it seems good to you, O king”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

יִ֠תְבַּקַּר

a_search_~_conducted

If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this with an active form, and you could say who would do the action. Alternate translation: “have your officials search”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

בְּ⁠בֵ֨ית גִּנְזַיָּ֜⁠א דִּי־מַלְכָּ֣⁠א

in=house_of treasury,the that/who Oh/the=king

As 6:1 explains more specifically, this was the house of the books that told where the treasures had been deposited. That is, it is the building where valuable documents such as royal chronicles were stored and kept safe. It is called a house metaphorically as if these documents lived there. Alternate translation: “in the building where the royal archives are kept”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י דִּֽי־מִן־כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ⁠א֙ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵ֔ם לְ⁠מִבְנֵ֛א בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥⁠א דֵ֖ךְ בִּ⁠ירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם

if there_is that/who from/more_than Kōresh Oh/the=king issued decree to,rebuild house_of the=god this in/on/at/with,Jerusalem

If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this with an active form. Alternate translation: “whether King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

וּ⁠רְע֥וּת מַלְכָּ֛⁠א עַל־דְּנָ֖ה יִשְׁלַ֥ח עֲלֶֽי⁠נָא

and,decision Oh/the=king on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this/about_this he/it_will_send_out/away to,us

Tattenai and his associates continue to address the king in third person as a form of respect. If this is confusing in your language, you can use the second person and indicate respect in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Please tell us, O king, what you would like us to do about this”

Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

וּ⁠רְע֥וּת מַלְכָּ֛⁠א עַל־דְּנָ֖ה יִשְׁלַ֥ח עֲלֶֽי⁠נָא

and,decision Oh/the=king on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this/about_this he/it_will_send_out/away to,us

Here the book ends its quotation of the letter that Tattenai and his associates sent to King Darius. If you decided in 5:7 to mark their words as a quotation, you should indicate that by ending the quotation here with a closing quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the end of a quotation.