OET interlinear 1SA 13:5

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֤לֶף רֶ֨כֶב֙

thirty thousand chariots

The author is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and they had 30,000 chariots]

Note 2 topic: translate-textvariants

שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֤לֶף רֶ֨כֶב֙

thirty thousand chariots

The traditional Hebrew text reads 30,000 chariots. Some ancient versions read “3,000 chariots,” suggesting that this may have been the original reading. See the discussion in the Introduction to this chapter. If a translation of the Bible exists in your region, you may wish to use the reading that it uses. If a translation of the Bible does not exist in your region, you may wish to use the reading of the ULT.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

וְ⁠עָ֕ם כַּ⁠ח֛וֹל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־שְׂפַֽת־הַ⁠יָּ֖ם לָ⁠רֹ֑ב

and,troops as_~_as_the,sand which/who on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in shore_of the=sea to=increase_in_number

The point of this comparison is that just as there is a seemingly countless number of grains of sand on a seashore, so it seemed that there were too many Philistine soldiers to count. You could make this point explicitly in plain language. Alternate translation: [and a seemingly countless number of soldiers]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo

וַֽ⁠יַּעֲלוּ֙

and,came_up

See the discussion in the Introduction to 1 Samuel of how Hebrew speakers and writers marked travel notices for change in elevation, and see how you translated the comparable expression in [1:3](../01/03.md). Alternate translation: [And they went]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / go

וַֽ⁠יַּעֲלוּ֙

and,came_up

In a context such as this, your language might say “came” instead of went. Alternate translation: [And they came]