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OET (OET-LV) and having_stood behind by the feet of_him weeping, she_began to_be_wetting the feet of_him with_the, tears, and she_was_wiping_off them with_the hairs of_the head of_her, and was_kissing the feet of_him, and was_anointing them with_the ointment.
OET (OET-RV) She stood weeping behind Yeshua’s feet, wetting his feet with her tears. Then she used her hair to wipe off the tears and kissed his feet and rubbed the lotion into them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
ταῖς θριξὶν τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτῆς
˱with˲_the hairs ˱of˲_the head ˱of˲_her
In your language, it might seem that this phrase expresses unnecessary extra information. If so, you could abbreviate it. Alternate translation: “with her hair”
ἤλειφεν τῷ μύρῳ
/was/_anointing_‹them› ˱with˲_the ointment
Alternate translation: “pouring perfume on them”
7:38 she knelt behind him at his feet: At a banquet, guests reclined around a low table with their feet extended outward. The woman could not reach Jesus’ head to anoint him, so she poured the perfume on his feet.
• wiped them off with her hair: Letting down her hair in public was scandalous and could have constituted grounds for her husband to divorce her; kissing his feet connoted reverence. She discarded propriety due to her gratitude.
OET (OET-LV) and having_stood behind by the feet of_him weeping, she_began to_be_wetting the feet of_him with_the, tears, and she_was_wiping_off them with_the hairs of_the head of_her, and was_kissing the feet of_him, and was_anointing them with_the ointment.
OET (OET-RV) She stood weeping behind Yeshua’s feet, wetting his feet with her tears. Then she used her hair to wipe off the tears and kissed his feet and rubbed the lotion into them.
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.