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OET (OET-LV) [fn] and_answered the_priest/officer DOM Dāvid and_he/it_said there_is_not bread_of profaneness to under hand_of_I if/because (if) bread_of holiness there_is if they_have_kept_themselves the_young_men only from_women.
21:5 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.4
OET (OET-RV) “There’s definitely been no women near us for three days,” David told the priest. “That’s how I always do missions. The men[fn] have been pure, even though it was a common journey, and today even more so.”
21:5 The Hebrew says ‘the men’s vessels’ (or ‘containers’). It’s not culturally clear if that referred to their ‘bodies’ (as this translation implies) or to something they carried.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
אִשָּׁ֤ה עֲצֻֽרָה־לָ֨נוּ֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,I that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the,young_men only from,women )
David is not referring to a specific woman. He means women in general. It may be more natural in your language to express this meaning by using a plural form. Alternate translation: [women have been kept from us]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
אִשָּׁ֤ה עֲצֻֽרָה־לָ֨נוּ֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,I that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the,young_men only from,women )
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [we have kept ourselves from women]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,I that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the,young_men only from,women )
See how you translated this expression in [4:7](../04/07.md). Alternate translation: [as in the past] or [as always]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
כְלֵֽי־הַנְּעָרִ֖ים & בַּכֶּֽלִי
(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,I that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the,young_men only from,women )
David is using one part of the men’s bodies, their vessels (meaning their sexual organs), to mean all of them in the context of not having had sexual relations recently. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the bodies of the men … with their bodies]
OET (OET-LV) [fn] and_answered the_priest/officer DOM Dāvid and_he/it_said there_is_not bread_of profaneness to under hand_of_I if/because (if) bread_of holiness there_is if they_have_kept_themselves the_young_men only from_women.
21:5 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.4
OET (OET-RV) “There’s definitely been no women near us for three days,” David told the priest. “That’s how I always do missions. The men[fn] have been pure, even though it was a common journey, and today even more so.”
21:5 The Hebrew says ‘the men’s vessels’ (or ‘containers’). It’s not culturally clear if that referred to their ‘bodies’ (as this translation implies) or to something they carried.
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.