InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Hero C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20
Hero 21 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25
◄ ← HERO (JDG) 21:15 ↓ → ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Benjamin (patriarch) · God
OET-LV And_the_people it_had_compassion to_Binyāmīn if/because YHWH he_had_made a_breach in_the_tribes_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) The people still felt sorry for the Benyamites, because Yahweh had caused a gap among Yisrael’s (Israel’s) tribes,
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וְהָעָ֥ם נִחָ֖ם לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה פֶּ֖רֶץ בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
and,the,people had_compassion to,Benjamin (Some words not found in UHB: and,the,people had_compassion to,Benjamin that/for/because/then/when he/it_had_made YHWH breach in,the_tribes_of Yisrael )
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: [And because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel, the people repented itself for Benjamin]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה פֶּ֖רֶץ בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
(Some words not found in UHB: and,the,people had_compassion to,Benjamin that/for/because/then/when he/it_had_made YHWH breach in,the_tribes_of Yisrael )
The author is speaking as if the tribes of Israel were a wall and Yahweh had made a breach or hole in it by removing the tribe of Benjamin. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [for Yahweh had removed one of the tribes from Israel]
OET-LV And_the_people it_had_compassion to_Binyāmīn if/because YHWH he_had_made a_breach in_the_tribes_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
OET (OET-RV) The people still felt sorry for the Benyamites, because Yahweh had caused a gap among Yisrael’s (Israel’s) tribes,
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.