OET interlinear JDG 4:21

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-unknown

אֶת־יְתַ֨ד הָ⁠אֹ֜הֶל & אֶת־הַ⁠מַּקֶּ֣בֶת

DOM peg the,tent & DOM the,hammer

The phrase a peg of the tent describes a pointed piece of wood or metal that people drive into the ground to hold down a corner of a tent. A hammer in this context refers to a heavy tool made of wood that people use to hit objects with force, for example, in order to drive a tent peg into the ground. If your readers would not be familiar with these objects, in your translation you could use the name of similar things that your readers would recognize, or you could use general expressions. Alternate translation: “a spike … a mallet” or “a sharp piece of wood … a heavy tool”

Note 2 topic: writing-background

וְ⁠הֽוּא־נִרְדָּ֥ם וַ⁠יָּ֖עַף

and=he lying_fast_asleep and,exhausted

Here the author is providing background information to help readers understand what is happening in the story. In your translation, introduce this information in a way that would be natural in your own language and culture. It may be helpful to put this information at the beginning of the verse, as the UST does.

Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וְ⁠הֽוּא־נִרְדָּ֥ם וַ⁠יָּ֖עַף

and=he lying_fast_asleep and,exhausted

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: “since he was so weary that he had fallen fast asleep”