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 C20 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 21 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V13 V14 V15
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Achish · David
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Gath
Dictionary: David
OET-LV (SA1 21:13) [fn] And_ Dāvid _he/it_assigned DOM the_words/messages the_these in_heart_of_his and_he_was_afraid exceedingly from_face/in_front_of ʼAkīsh the_king_of Gat.
21:13 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.12
OET (OET-RV) David listened to those words without any reaction because he was very afraid of what King Akish might do,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וַיָּ֧שֶׂם דָּוִ֛ד אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה בִּלְבָב֑וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_assigned Dāvid DOM the,words the=these in,heart_of,his and,he_was_afraid very from=face/in_front_of ʼAkīsh king Gat )
See how you translated the similar expression in 9:20. Alternate translation: [And David became concerned about these words]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה
DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_assigned Dāvid DOM the,words the=these in,heart_of,his and,he_was_afraid very from=face/in_front_of ʼAkīsh king Gat )
The author is using the term words to represent what the servants were saying about David. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [what they were saying]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
מִפְּנֵ֖י אָכִ֥ישׁ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_assigned Dāvid DOM the,words the=these in,heart_of,his and,he_was_afraid very from=face/in_front_of ʼAkīsh king Gat )
See how you translated the similar expression in 21:10. The author is using one part of Achish, his face, to mean all of him in his potential hostility toward David. Alternate translation: [of Achish]
OET-LV (SA1 21:13) [fn] And_ Dāvid _he/it_assigned DOM the_words/messages the_these in_heart_of_his and_he_was_afraid exceedingly from_face/in_front_of ʼAkīsh the_king_of Gat.
21:13 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.12
OET (OET-RV) David listened to those words without any reaction because he was very afraid of what King Akish might do,
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.