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People tagged in the matching LV passage: John the Apostle
OET-LV And the woman whom you_saw is the city the great, which having a_kingdom over the kings of_the earth.
OET (OET-RV) The woman that you saw is the famous city whose leaders rule over the rulers of the earth.”
In this section, John saw a woman sitting on a red beast. The woman had the symbolic name “Babylon.” An angel referred to her as a prostitute. The red beast had seven heads and ten horns. The beast worked together with her, but later he destroyed her.
Other examples of headings for this section are:
The great/famous prostitute with the symbolic name Babylon was destroyed
The red beast turned against the woman Babylon and destroyed her
And the woman you saw is the great city
The woman that you(sing) saw is the great city
The prostitute that you saw represents/symbolizes the well-known/influential city
And the woman you saw is the great city: The phrase the great city explains the symbolism of the woman.
woman: Here this word refers to the prostitute. In some languages it is more natural or more clear to use that word here. For example:
prostitute
great: Here this word means “important” or “well-known.” See how you translated this word in 11:8.
that rules over the kings of the earth.”
that rules the kings of the earth.”
rules: The great city rules the kings by its economic influence (17:1), moral influence (17:2), and religious influence (17:3, 17:6).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη, ἡ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν ἐπὶ
the the city ¬the great ¬which having ˓a˒_kingdom (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ἡ γυνή ἥν εἶδες ἐστίν ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη ἡ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν ἐπί τῶν βασιλέων τῆς γῆς)
The angel is referring to the king who rules from the great city by association with that city itself. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the great city whose king has a kingdom over]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη, ἡ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν ἐπὶ
the the city ¬the great ¬which having ˓a˒_kingdom (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ἡ γυνή ἥν εἶδες ἐστίν ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη ἡ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν ἐπί τῶν βασιλέων τῆς γῆς)
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of kingdom, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [the great city that rules over] or [the great city whose king rules over]
OET-LV And the woman whom you_saw is the city the great, which having a_kingdom over the kings of_the earth.
OET (OET-RV) The woman that you saw is the famous city whose leaders rule over the rulers of the earth.”
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.
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