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 C16 C17 C18 C19 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 20 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_not if still_I am_alive and_not you_will_do with_me the_covenant_loyalty_of YHWH and_not I_will_die.
OET (OET-RV) But as long as I’m still alive, please keep our agreement of faithfulness before Yahweh so I won’t die.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְלֹ֖א אִם־עוֹדֶ֣נִּי חָ֑י
and=not if (Some words not found in UHB: and=not if still,I living_(creature) and=not show with=me kindness_of YHWH and=not die )
Jonathan is referring to the time when David becomes king. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [And if I am not still alive when you become king]
Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical
וְלֹ֖א אִם־עוֹדֶ֣נִּי חָ֑י
and=not if (Some words not found in UHB: and=not if still,I living_(creature) and=not show with=me kindness_of YHWH and=not die )
Jonathan is describing a condition in which a second event will take place only if a first event does. Express this condition in a way that would be natural in your language. Alternate translation: [Suppose I am not still alive when I become king.]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְלֹֽא־תַעֲשֶׂ֧ה עִמָּדִ֛י חֶ֥סֶד יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א אָמֽוּת
and=not (Some words not found in UHB: and=not if still,I living_(creature) and=not show with=me kindness_of YHWH and=not die )
Jonathan is certain that if he were still alive when David became king, David would spare his life because of the covenant they have made together. But he also wants to be certain that David will spare the lives of his descendants if he is no longer alive. You could indicate this explicitly in your translation, translating this in a way that would lead naturally to that statement in the next verse. Alternate translation: [then rather than doing the covenant faithfulness of Yahweh with me so that I do not die]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
וְלֹֽא־תַעֲשֶׂ֧ה עִמָּדִ֛י חֶ֥סֶד יְהוָ֖ה
and=not (Some words not found in UHB: and=not if still,I living_(creature) and=not show with=me kindness_of YHWH and=not die )
See how you translated the similar expression in 20:8. Alternate translation: [then rather than being faithful to the covenant of Yahweh you made with me]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
וְלֹֽא־תַעֲשֶׂ֧ה עִמָּדִ֛י חֶ֥סֶד יְהוָ֖ה
and=not (Some words not found in UHB: and=not if still,I living_(creature) and=not show with=me kindness_of YHWH and=not die )
Jonathan is using this possessive form to describe the covenant that he and David made with Yahweh as their witness. Alternate translation: [then rather than being faithful to the sworn covenant between us that Yahweh has witnessed]
OET-LV And_not if still_I am_alive and_not you_will_do with_me the_covenant_loyalty_of YHWH and_not I_will_die.
OET (OET-RV) But as long as I’m still alive, please keep our agreement of faithfulness before Yahweh so I won’t die.
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.