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Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τίς & ἐξ ὑμῶν μεριμνῶν, δύναται ἐπὶ τὴν ἡλικίαν αὐτοῦ προσθεῖναι πῆχυν?
which & of you_all worrying /is/_able to the lifespan ˱of˲_him /to/_add /an/_hour
Jesus is using the question form to teach his disciples. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: “no one can make his life any longer by being anxious!”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐπὶ τὴν ἡλικίαν αὐτοῦ προσθεῖναι πῆχυν
to the lifespan ˱of˲_him /to/_add /an/_hour
Jesus is speaking of the lifespan as if it were measured in length rather than in time. Alternate translation: “make his life any longer”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
πῆχυν
/an/_hour
A cubit is a measure of length equal to about half a meter or about a foot and a half. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express this length using the measure that is customary your culture.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πῆχυν
/an/_hour
The implication may be that since a cubit is a relatively short distance, it represents only a short time. Alternate translation: “even a little bit” or “even a short time”
12:25 add a single moment to your life (literally add a single cubit to his length): Worry cannot add even one step on the road of life.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.