InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOB JOS JDG RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG JOEL MIC ISA ZEP HAB JER LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBA DAN EZE EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR DNG GES LES 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 LAO 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 Jdg C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Jdg 8 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Gideon · Zalmunna · Zebah
OET-LV And_ Zeⱱaḩ and_Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) _he/it_said you arise and_fall on_us if/because is_like_man strength_of_his and_ Gidˊōn _he/it_rose_up and_he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and_DOM Tsalmunnāˊ and_he/it_took DOM the_ornaments which were_on_the_necks_of their_camels_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Then Zevah and Tsalmuna said, “Come and kill us yourself—be a man and use your own strength.” So Gid’on went over and killed Zevah and Tsalmuna, and then he took the crescent-shaped ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ק֤וּם & וַיָּ֣קָם גִּדְע֗וֹן
get_up & (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Zeⱱaḩ and,Zalmunna get_up you(ms) and,fall on,us that/for/because/then/when [is]_like,man strength_of,his and=he/it_rose_up Gidˊōn and,he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and=DOM Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) and=he/it_took DOM the,ornaments which/who [were]_on,the_necks_of their_camels_of,their )
See how you translated the word “Arise” in the previous verse. Alternate translation: [Go ahead … So Gideon took action]
Note 2 topic: writing-proverbs
כִּ֥י כָאִ֖ישׁ גְּבוּרָת֑וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Zeⱱaḩ and,Zalmunna get_up you(ms) and,fall on,us that/for/because/then/when [is]_like,man strength_of,his and=he/it_rose_up Gidˊōn and,he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and=DOM Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) and=he/it_took DOM the,ornaments which/who [were]_on,the_necks_of their_camels_of,their )
Zebah and Zalmunna may be expressing their meaning by using a short popular saying of the culture. They probably mean that Gideon should not have expected that a boy would have had the strength or courage to kill them. Your culture may have a comparable saying that you can use in your translation. Alternate translation: [It takes a man to do a man’s job]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
כִּ֥י כָאִ֖ישׁ גְּבוּרָת֑וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Zeⱱaḩ and,Zalmunna get_up you(ms) and,fall on,us that/for/because/then/when [is]_like,man strength_of,his and=he/it_rose_up Gidˊōn and,he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and=DOM Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) and=he/it_took DOM the,ornaments which/who [were]_on,the_necks_of their_camels_of,their )
You may wish to use punctuation to indicate that Zebah and Zalmunna may be quoting a popular saying of the culture. You could put this sentence within second-level quotation marks, or you could use some other punctuation or convention of your language.
Note 4 topic: translate-unknown
אֶת־הַשַּׂ֣הֲרֹנִ֔ים
DOM DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Zeⱱaḩ and,Zalmunna get_up you(ms) and,fall on,us that/for/because/then/when [is]_like,man strength_of,his and=he/it_rose_up Gidˊōn and,he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and=DOM Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) and=he/it_took DOM the,ornaments which/who [were]_on,the_necks_of their_camels_of,their )
The word translated as ornaments describes crescent-shaped decorations made of gold. If your readers would not be familiar with such objects, in your translation you could describe them more fully. The UST models one way to do this.
OET-LV And_ Zeⱱaḩ and_Tsalmunnāˊ/(Zalmunna) _he/it_said you arise and_fall on_us if/because is_like_man strength_of_his and_ Gidˊōn _he/it_rose_up and_he_killed DOM Zeⱱaḩ and_DOM Tsalmunnāˊ and_he/it_took DOM the_ornaments which were_on_the_necks_of their_camels_of_their.
OET (OET-RV) Then Zevah and Tsalmuna said, “Come and kill us yourself—be a man and use your own strength.” So Gid’on went over and killed Zevah and Tsalmuna, and then he took the crescent-shaped ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
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.