OET interlinear MAT 21:21

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

δὲ

and

Here, the word But 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 But untranslated. Alternate translation: “Then”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hypo

ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν καὶ μὴ διακριθῆτε, οὐ μόνον τὸ τῆς συκῆς ποιήσετε, ἀλλὰ κἂν τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ εἴπητε, ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, γενήσεται

if ˱you_all˲_/may_be/_having faith and not /may_be/_doubted not only the_‹miracle› ˱of˲_the fig_tree ˱you_all˲_/will_be/_doing but even_if ˱to˲_the mountain this ˱you_all˲_/may/_say /be/_taken_away and /be/_cast into the sea ˱it˲_/will_be/_becoming

Here Jesus uses an imaginary situation to show that a person with faith can do amazing things, like casting a mountain into the sea. Use a natural method in your language for introducing an imaginary situation. Alternate translation: “imagine that you had faith and did not doubt. In that case, you could do not only what was of the fig tree. Even more, you could say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea,’ and it would happen”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

ἔχητε πίστιν καὶ μὴ διακριθῆτε

˱you_all˲_/may_be/_having faith and not /may_be/_doubted

These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could connect the phrases with a word other than and in order to show that the second phrase is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternatively, you could combine the two phrases and express the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “you have faith without doubting” or “you truly believe”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἔχητε πίστιν

˱you_all˲_/may_be/_having faith

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of faith, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “you believe”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τὸ τῆς συκῆς

the_‹miracle› ˱of˲_the fig_tree

Here Jesus is referring to what he did to the fig tree. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “what I did to the fig tree” or “things like what I did to the fig tree”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ εἴπητε, ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, γενήσεται

˱to˲_the mountain this ˱you_all˲_/may/_say /be/_taken_away and /be/_cast into the sea ˱it˲_/will_be/_becoming

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “you tell this mountain to be taken up and to be thrown into the sea, it will happen”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ

˱to˲_the mountain this

Here, the phrase this mountain could refer to: (1) the Mount of Olives, which Jesus and his disciples were near. Alternate translation: “to the Mount of Olives” or “to the mountain we are near” (2) any mountain. Alternate translation: “to a mountain”

Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν,

/be/_taken_away and /be/_cast into the sea

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 would do the action, it is clear from the context that it would be God. Alternate translation: “May God take you up and throw you into the sea”

Note 9 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular

ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι

/be/_taken_away and /be/_cast

Since someone is talking to a mountain, the commands here are singular.