InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Neh C1 C2 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13
Neh 3 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Hur (NEH 3:9) · Rephaiah (NEH 3:9)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem
Dictionary: Jerusalem
OET-LV And_on hand_of_their Rəfāyāh the_son_of Ḩūr the_official_of (the)_half_of the_district_of Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) he_repaired.
OET (OET-RV) Then it was Hur’s son Refayah, the administrator for half of the Yerushalem (Jerusalem) district.
וְעַל־יָדָ֤ם הֶחֱזִיק֙ רְפָיָ֣ה בֶן־ח֔וּר שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
and,on hand_of,their repaired Rəfā\sup_yāh son_of Ḩūr (Some words not found in UHB: and,on hand_of,their repaired Rəfāyāh son_of Ḩūr chief half_of district_of Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) )
In this chapter, when Nehemiah names a person, then names their father, and then describes a role, it is the first person, not their father, who was in that role. It will be helpful to your readers if you make this clear. Alternate translation: [Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur repaired part of the wall. Rephaiah ruled half of the district of Jerusalem]
Note 1 topic: translate-names
רְפָיָ֣ה בֶן־ח֔וּר
Rəfā\sup_yāh son_of Ḩūr
Rephaiah is the name of a man, and Hur is the name of his father.
Note 2 topic: translate-fraction
חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
half_of (Some words not found in UHB: and,on hand_of,their repaired Rəfāyāh son_of Ḩūr chief half_of district_of Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) )
The city of Jerusalem and the surrounding area seem to have been divided into districts for administration. This is the name of one of those districts. Apparently it was so large and populous that it had been further divided into two parts, each with its own administrator. Alternate translation: [ruled half the district of Jerusalem]
OET-LV And_on hand_of_their Rəfāyāh the_son_of Ḩūr the_official_of (the)_half_of the_district_of Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) he_repaired.
OET (OET-RV) Then it was Hur’s son Refayah, the administrator for half of the Yerushalem (Jerusalem) district.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.