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 C3 C4 C5 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13
Neh 6 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Tobiah (NEH 2:10)
OET-LV Also deeds_of_his_good they_were telling to/for_my_face/front and_words/messages_of_my they_were sending_out to_him/it letters Ţōⱱiyyāh he_sent to_make_me_afraid.
OET (OET-RV) Those leading citizen kept telling me about the good things he was doing, and they reported my words back to him. Toviyah also sent letters to try to frighten me.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
טוֹבֹתָ֗יו הָי֤וּ אֹמְרִים֙ לְפָנַ֔י
deeds_of,his_good they_were speaking to/for=my=face/front
Here, face represents the presence of a person. Alternate translation: [told me personally about Tobiah’s good deeds]
הָי֤וּ
they_were
They means the people who were loyal to Tobiah.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וּדְבָרַ֕י הָי֥וּ מוֹצִיאִ֖ים ל֑וֹ
and,words_of,my they_were reported to=him/it
Taking out here is an idiom that means these people were “reporting” Nehemiah’s responses to Tobiah. Alternate translation: [and then told him about my responses]
OET-LV Also deeds_of_his_good they_were telling to/for_my_face/front and_words/messages_of_my they_were sending_out to_him/it letters Ţōⱱiyyāh he_sent to_make_me_afraid.
OET (OET-RV) Those leading citizen kept telling me about the good things he was doing, and they reported my words back to him. Toviyah also sent letters to try to frighten me.
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.