OET interlinear MAT 18:24

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

δὲ

and

Here, the word Now introduces the next thing that happened. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the next event, or you could leave Now untranslated. Alternate translation: “Then,”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

συναίρειν

/to_be/_settling_accounts

Here, the phrase to take up together refers to settling accounts, that is, resolving any debts or loans between people. See how you translated the similar phrase in 18:23. Alternate translation: “to settle”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

προσηνέχθη εἷς αὐτῷ ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀρξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ συναίρειν προσήχθη εἷς αὐτῷ ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων)

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who did the action, you could use an indefinite subject. Alternate translation: “they brought to him one debtor of 10,000 talents”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων

/a/_debtor ˱of˲_ten_thousand talents

Here, Jesus is using the possessive form to describe a debtor who owes 10,000 talents. If this is not clear in your language, you could express the idea in another way. Alternate translation: “debtor who owed 10,000 talents”

Note 5 topic: translate-bmoney

μυρίων ταλάντων

˱of˲_ten_thousand talents

A talent was a unit of money equivalent to about 6,000 denarii, that is, about 6,000 days’ wages for a hired worker. This was a very large, almost uncountable, amount of money. You could try to express this amount in terms of current monetary values, but that might cause your Bible translation to become outdated and inaccurate, since those values can change over time. So instead you might state something more general or give the equivalent in wages. Make sure that your translation shows that this is a very large sum of money. Alternate translation: “of a huge amount of money” or “of 60 million days’ wages”