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OET (OET-LV) because today a_saviour was_born to_you_all, who is the_chosen_one/messiah, the_master, in the_city of_Dawid.
OET (OET-RV) because a saviour for all people was born today in David’s town. He’s the messiah—the master—
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / infostructure
ἐτέχθη ὑμῖν σήμερον Σωτὴρ, ὅς ἐστιν Χριστὸς, Κύριος, ἐν πόλει Δαυείδ
/was/_born ˱to˲_you_all today /a/_Savior who is /the/_Messiah /the/_Lord in /the/_city (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὅτι ἐτέχθη ὑμῖν σήμερον Σωτὴρ ὅς ἐστιν Χριστὸς Κύριος ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ)
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases. Alternate translation: “a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, has been born for you today in the city of David”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐτέχθη ὑμῖν σήμερον
/was/_born ˱to˲_you_all today
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “we are announcing the birth for you today”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐν πόλει Δαυείδ
in /the/_city (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ὅτι ἐτέχθη ὑμῖν σήμερον Σωτὴρ ὅς ἐστιν Χριστὸς Κύριος ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ)
This means Bethlehem. See the explanation in the note to 2:4. Alternate translation: “in Bethlehem”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὅς ἐστιν Χριστὸς, Κύριος
who is /the/_Messiah /the/_Lord
Christ is the Greek word for “Messiah.” Alternate translation: “who is the Messiah, the Lord”
2:11 The Messiah (Greek Christos, a translation of Hebrew mashiakh) means “Anointed One” and refers to the coming savior from David’s line (see study note on 1:32-33). As the Good News moved from a Jewish context to the Gentile world, Christians began to use Christos less as a title and more as a name.
OET (OET-LV) because today a_saviour was_born to_you_all, who is the_chosen_one/messiah, the_master, in the_city of_Dawid.
OET (OET-RV) because a saviour for all people was born today in David’s town. He’s the messiah—the master—
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.