OET interlinear MAT 23:15

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι, ὑποκριταί! ὅτι περιάγετε τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηρὰν ποιῆσαι ἕνα προσήλυτον, καὶ ὅταν γένηται, ποιεῖτε αὐτὸν υἱὸν Γεέννης διπλότερον ὑμῶν

woe ˱to˲_you_all scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because ˱you_all˲_/are/_going_around the sea and the dry_‹land› /to/_make one convert and whenever ˱he˲_/may/_become ˱you_all˲_/are/_making him /a/_son ˱of˲_Gehenna twice_more_‹than› you_all

If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these sentences, since the second sentence gives the reason for the result that the first sentence describes. Alternate translation: “You, scribes and Pharisees, go around the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as you. So woe to you, hypocrites!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / merism

τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηρὰν

the sea and the dry_‹land›

Jesus is referring to all of the earth by naming its two main components. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the entire earth”

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

ἕνα προσήλυτον

one convert

A proselyte is a non-Jewish person who converts to Judaism. If your readers would not be familiar with the meaning of this term, you could refer to a similar phenomenon in your area, or you could use a more general term. Alternate translation: “one convert to Judaism”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

γένηται & αὐτὸν υἱὸν

˱he˲_/may/_become & him /a/_son

Although the terms he, him, and son are masculine, Jesus is using the words in a generic sense that includes both men and women. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a phrase that makes this clear. Alternate translation: “a person becomes one … him or her … a child”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

υἱὸν Γεέννης διπλότερον ὑμῶν

/a/_son ˱of˲_Gehenna twice_more_‹than› you_all

Here Jesus uses the phrase twice as much to indicate that the person is even more a son of Gehenna than the scribes and Pharisees. He does not mean that the person is exactly twice a son of Gehenna. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “even more a son of Gehenna than you are”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

υἱὸν Γεέννης

/a/_son ˱of˲_Gehenna

The expression a son of Gehenna refers to a person who will end up in Gehenna. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “a person who will end up in Gehenna” or “a person who belongs in Gehenna”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

Γεέννης

˱of˲_Gehenna

Here Jesus uses the name Gehenna to refer to hell. The valley named Gehenna was outside the city of Jerusalem and was a place where people threw out and burned garbage. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a simile or state the meaning plainly. See how you expressed the idea in 18:9. Alternate translation: “of a place like the valley of Gehenna” or “of hell, which is like Gehenna valley,”