OET interlinear EZRA 6:1

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

בֵּ⁠אדַ֛יִן

in=then

Here, Then indicates that the sentence it introduces explains the results of what the previous sentences described. Alternate translation: “As a result”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖⁠א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּ⁠בַקַּ֣רוּ

Dārəyāvesh Oh/the=king issued decree and,searched

The implication is that King Darius ordered his officials to search in the royal archives to investigate the claims that the Jewish elders had made in response to the questions that Tattenai and his associates asked them. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say this explicitly. Alternate translation: “King Darius commanded his officials to investigate whether King Cyrus had issued a decree to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem by searching”

Note 3 topic: translate-names

דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ

Dārəyāvesh

Darius is the name of a man. See how you translated it in 4:5.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

בְּ⁠בֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗⁠א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛⁠א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין

in=house_of archives,the that/who treasury,the stored

This means the building or buildings where valuable documents such as royal chronicles were stored and kept safe. This is called a house as if those documents lived there. Alternate translation: “in the places where the kings stored their chronicles and other valuable items”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

בְּ⁠בֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗⁠א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛⁠א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין

in=house_of archives,the that/who treasury,the stored

If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this with an active form, and you could say who did the action. Alternate translation: “in the places where the kings stored their chronicles and other valuable items”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

תַּמָּ֖ה בְּ⁠בָבֶֽל

there in/on/at/with,Babylon

This cannot mean that the search was limited to the archives in the city of Babylon or even to the region of Babylon that had become a province in the Persian Empire because a scroll describing the decree of Cyrus was finally found in the neighboring province of Media. Rather, Babylon must be a general description for the whole area that was the center of power for the Babylonian and Persian empires. Alternate translation: “there in Babylonia”