OET interlinear REV 6:6

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

λέγουσαν

saying

This voice is giving instructions to the rider on the black horse. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [saying to the rider on the black horse]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

χοῖνιξ σίτου δηναρίου, καὶ τρεῖς χοίνικες κριθῶν δηναρίου

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ἤκουσα ὡς φωνήν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν τεσσάρων ζῴων λέγουσαν Χοῖνιξ σίτου δηναρίου καί τρεῖς χοίνικες κριθῶν δηναρίου καί τό ἔλαιον καί τόν οἶνον μή ἀδικήσῃς)

The implication is that there would be famine, so that wheat and barley, the staple crops in this culture, would become scarce and very expensive. (The balance that John describes the third rider holding in the previous verse may symbolize weighing grain for sale.) You could indicate this in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [Create famine that will cause grain to become so scarce that a choenix of wheat will cost a denarius and three choenices of barley will cost a denarius]

Note 3 topic: translate-bvolume

χοῖνιξ σίτου & τρεῖς χοίνικες κριθῶν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ἤκουσα ὡς φωνήν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν τεσσάρων ζῴων λέγουσαν Χοῖνιξ σίτου δηναρίου καί τρεῖς χοίνικες κριθῶν δηναρίου καί τό ἔλαιον καί τόν οἶνον μή ἀδικήσῃς)

A choenix was a measure equivalent to about one liter or one quart. The plural of choenix is choenices. Alternate translation: [one liter of wheat … three liters of barley] or [one quart of wheat … three quarts of barley]

Note 4 topic: translate-bmoney

δηναρίου & δηναρίου

˱for˲_˓a˒_denarius & ˱for˲_˓a˒_denarius

The denarius was a silver coin that was worth a day’s wages for a laborer. You could try to express this amount in terms of current monetary values, but that might cause your Bible translation to become outdated and inaccurate, since those values can change over time. So instead you could use a general expression or give the equivalent in wages. Alternate translation, in each instance: [for one silver coin] or [for the pay for one day of work]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives

μὴ ἀδικήσῃς

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ἤκουσα ὡς φωνήν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν τεσσάρων ζῴων λέγουσαν Χοῖνιξ σίτου δηναρίου καί τρεῖς χοίνικες κριθῶν δηναρίου καί τό ἔλαιον καί τόν οἶνον μή ἀδικήσῃς)

If it would be clearer in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the negative verb harm. Alternate translation: [be careful to preserve]