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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1 Ki 10 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V28 V29
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem · Shephelah
Dictionary: Jerusalem
OET-LV And_ the_king _he/it_gave DOM (the)_silver in_Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) like_stone(s) and_DOM (the)_cedars he_made like_sycamores which are_in_Shephelah to_increase_in_number.
OET (OET-RV) While he was king, silver in Yerushalem was given a value similar to stones, and cedar timber was given a value like that of the sycamores that grow in plenty in the lowlands.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
וַיִּתֵּ֨ן הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ אֶת־הַכֶּ֛סֶף בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם כָּאֲבָנִ֑ים וְאֵ֣ת הָאֲרָזִ֗ים נָתַ֛ן כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה לָרֹֽב
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave the=king DOM (the),silver in,Jerusalem like,stone(s) and=DOM (the),cedars he/it_gave like,sycamores which/who [are]_in,Shephelah to=increase_in_number )
The author is making overstatements for emphasis. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different way to express the emphasis. The UST models one way to do that.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
וַיִּתֵּ֨ן הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ אֶת־הַכֶּ֛סֶף בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם כָּאֲבָנִ֑ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave the=king DOM (the),silver in,Jerusalem like,stone(s) and=DOM (the),cedars he/it_gave like,sycamores which/who [are]_in,Shephelah to=increase_in_number )
The author is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [And the king made silver in Jerusalem to be like stones for abundance]
Note 3 topic: translate-names
בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_gave the=king DOM (the),silver in,Jerusalem like,stone(s) and=DOM (the),cedars he/it_gave like,sycamores which/who [are]_in,Shephelah to=increase_in_number )
The word Shephelah is the name of a place within the territory of the tribe of Judah, the foothills between the highlands and the coastal plain. Alternate translation: [the Judean foothills]
OET-LV And_ the_king _he/it_gave DOM (the)_silver in_Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) like_stone(s) and_DOM (the)_cedars he_made like_sycamores which are_in_Shephelah to_increase_in_number.
OET (OET-RV) While he was king, silver in Yerushalem was given a value similar to stones, and cedar timber was given a value like that of the sycamores that grow in plenty in the lowlands.
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.
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