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
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Hero 4 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Barak · Sisera (army captain)
OET-LV And_Bārāq he_pursued after the_chariotry and_after the_army to Harosheth Haggoyim and_ all_of the_army_of Şīşərāʼ _it_fell to_the_mouth_of the_sword not up_to one it_was_left.
OET (OET-RV) Barak pursued the men and chariots as far as Haroshet-Hagoyim and they killed them all—not a single one survived.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
וּבָרָ֗ק
and,Barak
The author is using Barak, the commander of the Israelite army, to mean the entire army. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [But Barak and the soldiers he commanded]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
וַיִּפֹּ֞ל כָּל־מַחֲנֵ֤ה סִֽיסְרָא֙ לְפִי־חֶ֔רֶב לֹ֥א נִשְׁאַ֖ר עַד־אֶחָֽד
(Some words not found in UHB: and,Barak pursued after the,chariotry and=after the,army until Harosheth Haggoyim and,it_fell all/each/any/every army_of Şīşərāʼ to_[the],mouth_of sword not left until one(ms) )
The phrases all of the army … fell and Not even one remained mean the same thing. For emphasis, the author is saying it first positively and then negatively. If a speaker of your language would not use repetition like this, in your translation you can convey the emphasis in a different way. Alternate translation: [and every single one of Sisera’s soldiers fell by the mouth of the sword]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וַיִּפֹּ֞ל
(Some words not found in UHB: and,Barak pursued after the,chariotry and=after the,army until Harosheth Haggoyim and,it_fell all/each/any/every army_of Şīşərāʼ to_[the],mouth_of sword not left until one(ms) )
The author is using the word fell to mean “died,” by association with the way that people fall down when they die. Alternate translation: [and … died]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
לְפִי־חֶ֔רֶב
to_[the],mouth_of sword
See how you translated the similar expression in the previous verse.
OET-LV And_Bārāq he_pursued after the_chariotry and_after the_army to Harosheth Haggoyim and_ all_of the_army_of Şīşərāʼ _it_fell to_the_mouth_of the_sword not up_to one it_was_left.
OET (OET-RV) Barak pursued the men and chariots as far as Haroshet-Hagoyim and they killed them all—not a single one survived.
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.