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OET (OET-LV) And it_was now about the_ sixth _hour, and darkness became over all the land until the_ ninth _hour.
Note 1 topic: writing-background
καὶ ἦν ἤδη
and ˱it˲_was now
Luke uses this phrase to introduce background information that will help readers understand what happens next. He explains that it was about noon so that readers will appreciate how extraordinary it was that the entire sky became dark. Alternate translation: [Now by this time it was]
ὡσεὶ ὥρα ἕκτη
about /the/_hour sixth
In this culture, people began counting the hours each day beginning around daybreak at six o’clock in the morning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this in the way the people of your culture reckon time. Alternate translation: [about noon]
Note 2 topic: translate-ordinal
ὡσεὶ ὥρα ἕκτη
about /the/_hour sixth
If you decide to translate this in the way that the biblical culture reckoned time, but your language does not use ordinal numbers, you can use a cardinal number here. Alternate translation: [around hour six]
σκότος ἐγένετο ἐφ’ ὅλην τὴν γῆν
darkness became over all the land
The term translated as land could refer to: (1) a particular area. Alternate translation, as in UST: “it became dark throughout that whole area” (2) the earth. Alternate translation: [darkness covered the entire earth]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
σκότος ἐγένετο ἐφ’ ὅλην τὴν γῆν
darkness became over all the land
This could also be a figurative reference to the sky, since it is over the land. Alternate translation: [the entire sky became dark]
ἕως ὥρας ἐνάτης
until /the/_hour ninth
This phrase also expresses the way people in this culture began counting the hours each day beginning around daybreak at six o’clock in the morning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this in the way the people of your culture reckon time. Alternate translation: [until three o’clock in the afternoon]
Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal
ἕως ὥρας ἐνάτης
until /the/_hour ninth
If you decide to translate this in the way that the biblical culture reckoned time, but your language does not use ordinal numbers, you can use a cardinal number here. Alternate translation: [until hour nine]
23:44 Darkness symbolizes sorrow as well as God’s judgment (Ps 23:4; Isa 8:22; 9:1-2).
OET (OET-LV) And it_was now about the_ sixth _hour, and darkness became over all the land until the_ ninth _hour.
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.