OET interlinear 1 TIM 1:7

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

νομοδιδάσκαλοι

law_teachers

Here, the word law refers specifically to the laws that God gave the Israelites through Moses. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [teachers of the law of Moses]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives

μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε & μήτε

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι μή νοοῦντες μήτε ἅ λέγουσιν μήτε περί τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται)

The words not, neither, and nor are three negative words. In this construction, the second and third negatives do not cancel the first to create a positive meaning. Instead, they give greater emphasis to the negative. If your language can use three negatives that do not cancel one another to create a positive meaning, you could use a triple negative here. If your language does not use three negatives in that way, you could translate with one or two negatives. Alternate translation: [understanding neither … nor]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται

neither nor (Some words not found in SR-GNT: θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι μή νοοῦντες μήτε ἅ λέγουσιν μήτε περί τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται)

Here, the clauses what they are saying and what they insist on mean similar things. Paul is using the two clauses together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single clause. Alternate translation: [anything that they are saying] or [any of the things that they insist on]