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 2 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25
2 Ki 5 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_he/it_said by_the_life of_YHWH whom I_stand before_him if I_will_accept and_he_urged in/on/over_him/it to_take/accept/receive and_he_refused.
OET (OET-RV) “By the life of Yahweh who I serve,” he responded, “I won’t take anything.”
¶ Na’aman urged him to take something, but he kept refusing.
Note 1 topic: writing-oathformula
חַי־יְהוָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־עָמַ֥דְתִּי לְפָנָ֖יו אִם־אֶקָּ֑ח
he/it_lived YHWH (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said he/it_lived YHWH which/who stand before,,him if accept and,he_urged in/on/over=him/it to=take/accept/receive and,he_refused )
Following the custom of his culture, Elisha is swearing an oath by guaranteeing it by something that he holds sacred and by stating the first part of a condition (“if”) but not the second part (“then”). Use a natural way in your language to express an oath. In a context such as this, it may be natural to express just the first part of the condition as a negative statement. Alternate translation: [I swear by Yahweh, to whose face I stand, that I will not take]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֲשֶׁר־עָמַ֥דְתִּי לְפָנָ֖יו
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said he/it_lived YHWH which/who stand before,,him if accept and,he_urged in/on/over=him/it to=take/accept/receive and,he_refused )
See how you translated the similar expression in 3:14. Alternate translation: [in whose presence I stand] or [whose servant I am]
OET-LV And_he/it_said by_the_life of_YHWH whom I_stand before_him if I_will_accept and_he_urged in/on/over_him/it to_take/accept/receive and_he_refused.
OET (OET-RV) “By the life of Yahweh who I serve,” he responded, “I won’t take anything.”
¶ Na’aman urged him to take something, but he kept refusing.
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.