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 1 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C19 C20 C21 C22
1 Ki 18 V1 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Ahab (KI1 16:28) · God · Obadiah (KI1 18:3)
OET-LV And_ ʼAḩʼāⱱ _he/it_called (to) ˊOⱱadyāh who was_over the_household and_ˊOⱱadyāh he_was fearing DOM YHWH exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) and King Ahav had summoned his palace manager Ovadyah (Obadiah). (Ovadyah was a sincere follower of Yahweh.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
עֹבַדְיָ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וְעֹבַדְיָ֗הוּ הָיָ֥ה יָרֵ֛א אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה מְאֹֽד
ˊOⱱad\sup_yāh (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_called ʼAḩʼāⱱ to/towards ˊOⱱadyāh which/who on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,household and,Obadiah it_became fearing DOM YHWH very )
in this verse and the next verse, the author is introducing Obadiah as a new participant in the story. Your language may have its own way of introducing new participants that you can use in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_called ʼAḩʼāⱱ to/towards ˊOⱱadyāh which/who on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,household and,Obadiah it_became fearing DOM YHWH very )
See how you translated the similar expression in 16:9. Alternate translation: [who was in charge of the palace] or [the administrator of his palace]
OET-LV And_ ʼAḩʼāⱱ _he/it_called (to) ˊOⱱadyāh who was_over the_household and_ˊOⱱadyāh he_was fearing DOM YHWH exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) and King Ahav had summoned his palace manager Ovadyah (Obadiah). (Ovadyah was a sincere follower of Yahweh.
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.