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 C14 C15 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 16 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23
OET-LV And_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_said to Yishay are_ the_young_men _they_finished and_he/it_said still the_young_one he_remains and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE he_is_shepherding (in)_flock and_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_said to Yishay send and_bring_him if/because not we_will_turn_round until comes_he here.
OET (OET-RV) Then Shmuel asked Yishay, “Is this all your sons?”
¶ “Well, there’s just the youngest,” he answered “but you see, he’s out looking after the flock.”[fn]
¶ “Send for him,” Shmuel instructed him, “because we won’t do anything else until he gets here.”
16:11 We deliberately left the word ‘flock’ here (rather than ‘sheep’), because although young David is always thought of as ‘the shepherd boy’ in English culture, in the middle-East, goats are probably a more important part of the flock than sheep.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְהִנֵּ֥ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) to/towards Yishay/(Jesse) are,they_finished? the_young,men and=he/it_said again/more remains the_young,[one] and=see/lo/see! tending (in),flock and=he/it_said Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) to/towards Yishay/(Jesse) send, and,bring,him that/for/because/then/when not sit_down until comes,he here )
See how you translated the term behold in 2:31. Alternate translation: [but this is the situation]
Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
שִׁלְחָ֣ה וְקָחֶ֔נּוּ כִּ֥י לֹא־נָסֹ֖ב עַד־בֹּא֥וֹ פֹֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) to/towards Yishay/(Jesse) are,they_finished? the_young,men and=he/it_said again/more remains the_young,[one] and=see/lo/see! tending (in),flock and=he/it_said Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) to/towards Yishay/(Jesse) send, and,bring,him that/for/because/then/when not sit_down until comes,he here )
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: [Since we will not go around until he comes here, send and get him]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
לֹא־נָסֹ֖ב
not sit_down
Samuel means that they will not go around the table to sit down to eat. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [we will not go around the table] or [we will not sit down to eat]
OET-LV And_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_said to Yishay are_ the_young_men _they_finished and_he/it_said still the_young_one he_remains and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE he_is_shepherding (in)_flock and_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_said to Yishay send and_bring_him if/because not we_will_turn_round until comes_he here.
OET (OET-RV) Then Shmuel asked Yishay, “Is this all your sons?”
¶ “Well, there’s just the youngest,” he answered “but you see, he’s out looking after the flock.”[fn]
¶ “Send for him,” Shmuel instructed him, “because we won’t do anything else until he gets here.”
16:11 We deliberately left the word ‘flock’ here (rather than ‘sheep’), because although young David is always thought of as ‘the shepherd boy’ in English culture, in the middle-East, goats are probably a more important part of the flock than sheep.
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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