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OET (OET-LV) And the number of_the armies of_the horsemen were two ten_thousand of_ten_thousand, I_heard the number of_them.
OET (OET-RV) I heard someone say how many mounted soldiers there were—there were 200 million of them,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / infostructure
ὁ ἀριθμὸς τῶν στρατευμάτων τοῦ ἱππικοῦ δύο μυριάδες μυριάδων; ἤκουσα τὸν ἀριθμὸν αὐτῶν.
the number ˱of˲_the armies ˱of˲_the horsemen_‹were› two ten_thousand ˱of˲_ten_thousand ˱I˲_heard the number ˱of˲_them
John typically says I heard or “I saw” before describing what he heard or saw, so it might be more natural to put that information first. Alternate translation: “I heard the number of the horse soldiers; it was two myriads of myriads”
Note 2 topic: translate-numbers
δύο μυριάδες μυριάδων
two ten_thousand ˱of˲_ten_thousand
A myriad is a hundred hundreds, or ten thousand. Express this number in the way that would be most natural in your language. See how you translated a similar large number in 5:11. Alternate translation: “200,000,000”
9:16 The relationship of the four angels to their army is not clear.
• 200 million: This figure represents an innumerable multitude. Even at its greatest strength, the ancient Roman army with twenty-one legions numbered only about 126,000 soldiers. It is unproductive to use this number in attempting to identify any specific country with such an overwhelming destructive force.
OET (OET-LV) And the number of_the armies of_the horsemen were two ten_thousand of_ten_thousand, I_heard the number of_them.
OET (OET-RV) I heard someone say how many mounted soldiers there were—there were 200 million of them,
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 SR-GNT.