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 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 7 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Ramah (SA1 1:19)
OET-LV And_return_of_his was_to_(the)_Rāmāh if/because was_there house_of_his and_there he_judged DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_he/it_built there an_altar to/for_YHWH.
OET (OET-RV) but he always returned to Ramah because his home was there. He would judge disputes there, and built an altar to Yahweh there.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וּתְשֻׁבָת֤וֹ הָרָמָ֨תָה֙ כִּֽי־שָׁ֣ם בֵּית֔וֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and,return_of,his [was]_to,(the),Ramah that/for/because/then/when there house_of,his and=there judged DOM Yisrael and=he/it_built there altar to/for=YHWH )
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: [And since Samuel’s house was in Ramah, he always returned there]
OET-LV And_return_of_his was_to_(the)_Rāmāh if/because was_there house_of_his and_there he_judged DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) and_he/it_built there an_altar to/for_YHWH.
OET (OET-RV) but he always returned to Ramah because his home was there. He would judge disputes there, and built an altar to Yahweh there.
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.