OET interlinear MARK 8:3

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hypo

ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ

if ˱I˲_/may/_send_away them hungry to home ˱of˲_them ˱they˲_/will_be_being/_exhausted on the way

Here Jesus uses an imaginary situation to help explain what would happen if he sent the people away to their home hungry. Use a natural method in your language for introducing an imaginary situation. Alternate translation: [imagine that I were to send them away to their home hungry. In that case, they would faint on the way]

Note 2 topic: grammar-collectivenouns

οἶκον αὐτῶν

home ˱of˲_them

If it would not be natural in your language to speak as if a group of people had only one home, you could use the plural form of that word in your translation. Alternate translation: [their homes]

ἐκλυθήσονται

˱they˲_/will_be_being/_exhausted

Alternate translation: [they will become weary] or [they will lose their strength]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ

on the way

Here, Jesus implies that the people would be walking on the way to their homes. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [on the way to their homes] or [while they going home]

Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

καί τινες αὐτῶν

and some ˱of˲_them

Here, the word and introduces something that makes the situation even more difficult. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces something that intensifies the situation. Alternate translation: [and even worse, some of them] or [and that is especially true for those who]