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: Saul
OET-LV And_not Shāʼūl he_spoke anything in_the_day (the)_that if/because he_said is_chance it not is_clean he if/because not clean.
OET (OET-RV) but Sha’ul didn’t say anything that day, thinking, “Something must have happened that made him ceremonially unclean.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אָמַר֙
he/it_had_said
Saul did not say these words out loud. Rather, this was what he thought to himself. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make this explicit in your translation. Alternate translation: [he said to himself] or [he thought]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / reduplication
בִּלְתִּ֥י טָה֛וֹר ה֖וּא כִּֽי־לֹ֥א טָהֽוֹר
(Some words not found in UHB: and=not say Shāʼūl/(Saul) anything in_the=day (the)=that that/for/because/then/when he/it_had_said happened he/it not clean he/it that/for/because/then/when not clean )
In this instance, Saul is actually not repeating the word clean for emphasis. Instead, the author is showing how Saul talked himself into this conclusion. So it would be appropriate to repeat the word in your translation.
OET-LV And_not Shāʼūl he_spoke anything in_the_day (the)_that if/because he_said is_chance it not is_clean he if/because not clean.
OET (OET-RV) but Sha’ul didn’t say anything that day, thinking, “Something must have happened that made him ceremonially unclean.”
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.