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 1 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 14 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45 V47 V49 V51
OET-LV Indeed if/because if indeed_(eat) it_had_eaten the_day the_people any_of_the_plunder_of its_enemies_of_his which it_found if/because now not defeat among_Pəlishtiy it_has_been_great.
OET (OET-RV) Actually, if the troops had eaten what they’d found from the plunder of their enemies today, how much better it would have been because we might have had an even more decisive victory over the Pelishtim.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
אַ֗ף כִּ֡י לוּא֩ אָכֹ֨ל אָכַ֤ל הַיּוֹם֙ הָעָ֔ם מִשְּׁלַ֥ל
also/though (Some words not found in UHB: also/though that/for/because/then/when if to_eat he_ate the=day the,people any,of_the_plunder_of its_enemies_of,his which/who he/it_found that/for/because/then/when now not great slaughter among,Philistines )
Jonathan is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [How much more would all of us have remained strong if eating, the people had eaten today from the plunder of]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / reduplication
אָכֹ֨ל אָכַ֤ל & הָעָ֔ם
to_eat he_ate & the,people
Jonathan is repeating forms of the verb “eat” to intensify the expression of his wish that the people had eaten. If your language can repeat words for intensification, it would be appropriate to do that here in your translation. If not, your language may have another way of expressing the intensification. Alternate translation: [the people had surely eaten]
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast
כִּ֥י
(Some words not found in UHB: also/though that/for/because/then/when if to_eat he_ate the=day the,people any,of_the_plunder_of its_enemies_of,his which/who he/it_found that/for/because/then/when now not great slaughter among,Philistines )
Jonathan is using the word translated For to indicate a contrast between what could have happened and what actually happened. Alternate translation: [But instead] or [By contrast]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
מַכָּ֖ה בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּֽים
(Some words not found in UHB: also/though that/for/because/then/when if to_eat he_ate the=day the,people any,of_the_plunder_of its_enemies_of,his which/who he/it_found that/for/because/then/when now not great slaughter among,Philistines )
See how you translated the term striking in 4:10. Alternate translation: [the slaughter among the Philistines]
OET-LV Indeed if/because if indeed_(eat) it_had_eaten the_day the_people any_of_the_plunder_of its_enemies_of_his which it_found if/because now not defeat among_Pəlishtiy it_has_been_great.
OET (OET-RV) Actually, if the troops had eaten what they’d found from the plunder of their enemies today, how much better it would have been because we might have had an even more decisive victory over the Pelishtim.”
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.
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