OET interlinear GAL 4:27

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

γάρ

for

Here, Paul uses the word For to indicate that he is introducing material which supports what he said in 4:26. Use a natural form in your language for introducing information which supports a prior claim.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

γέγραπται

˱it˲_/has_been/_written

Here, Paul uses the phrase it is written to indicate that what follows is a quotation from the Old Testament Scriptures. Paul assumes that his readers will understand this. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase that indicates that Paul is referring to an important text. Alternate translation: “it is written in the Scriptures”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

γέγραπται

˱it˲_/has_been/_written

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you must state who did the action, Paul implies that the prophet Isaiah did it. Alternate translation: “Isaiah wrote”

Note 4 topic: writing-quotations

εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα, ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα, ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον, ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα

/be/_gladdened barren_‹woman› you not bearing break_forth and shout you not laboring_in_birth because many_‹are› the children ˱of˲_the desolate more than ˱of˲_the_‹woman› having the husband

This is a quotation from Isaiah 54:1. Use a natural way of indicating that something is a quotation.

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα, ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα

/be/_gladdened barren_‹woman› you not bearing break_forth and shout you not laboring_in_birth

These two phrases mean the same thing. Isaiah uses a common Hebrew poetic device and says the same thing twice, in slightly different ways. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine the phrases into one. Alternate translation: “Rejoice, you who are barren” or “Rejoice, you who have been unable to have children”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

στεῖρα & ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα

barren_‹woman› & you not laboring_in_birth

If your language requires you to state the person who is the object of a command, it is implied that a woman is being addressed. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate that explicitly. Alternate translation: “you barren woman … you woman not suffering the pains of childbirth”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα, ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα, ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον, ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα

/be/_gladdened barren_‹woman› you not bearing break_forth and shout you not laboring_in_birth because many_‹are› the children ˱of˲_the desolate more than ˱of˲_the_‹woman› having the husband

Paul is quoting the prophet Isaiah, who is speaking of the city of Jerusalem as if it were a barren woman who is unable to give birth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent metaphor from your culture. Alternatively, you could express the meaning plainly.

Note 8 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

ὅτι

because

The word because is introducing the reason to Rejoice. Use a natural form for introducing a reason to do something.

Note 9 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον, ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα

many_‹are› the children ˱of˲_the desolate more than ˱of˲_the_‹woman› having the husband

The prophet Isaiah wrote this scripture passage during the time in which Jerusalem and its people had been conquered by the Babylonian army and the people taken away to Babylon. Isaiah is speaking of the city of Jerusalem as it was at the time of his writing, when it was without most of its original inhabitants. He compares the empty city to a desolate woman, a woman whose husband has left her, and he speaks of the inhabitants of Jerusalem as if they were children. In this passage from Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah is picturing Israel as a wife who is abandoned by her husband, which is God. Having children in this context refers to having inhabitants. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use equivalent metaphors from your culture. Alternatively, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the woman who was abandoned by her husband has more children than does the woman living with her husband”

Note 10 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

ἢ

than

Paul is leaving out some of the words that a sentence would need in many languages to be complete. If it would be helpful in your language, you could supply these words from the context. Alternate translation: “than the children”