1 KI 3:8 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ὁ δὲ δοῦλός σου ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ὃν ἐξελέξω, λαὸν πολὺν, ὃς οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται.
(Ho de doulos sou en mesōi tou laou sou, hon exelexō, laon polun, hos ouk arithmaʸthaʸsetai.)

BrTr But thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which [fn]cannot be numbered.

ULT And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, an abundant people who can not be numbered and can not be counted from abundance.

UST I live among the Israelite people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people. Because there are so many of them, no one can count them.

BSB Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB No OEB 1 KI book available

WEBBE Your servant is amongst your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

LSV and Your servant [is] in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,

FBV I, your servant, am here in among your chosen people, a great people that are so many they cannot be counted.

T4T I am here among the people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people; there are very, very many of them, with the result that no one can count them [DOU].

LEB Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.

BBE And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

Moff No Moff 1 KI book available

JPS And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

ASV And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

DRA And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

YLT and Thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,

Drby And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

RV And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is in the midst of thy/your people which thou/you hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.)

SLT And thy servant in the midst of thy people which thou didst choose, many people which shall not be numbered and counted for multitude.

Wbstr And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

KJB-1769 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is in the midst of thy/your people which thou/you hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.)

KJB-1611 And thy seruant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbred, nor counted for multitude.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And thy seruaunt is in the middest of thy people which thou hast chosen: and veryly the people are so many, that they cannot be told nor nubred for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is in the midst of thy/your people which thou/you hast chosen: and verily/truly the people are so many, that they cannot be told nor nubred for multitude.)

Gnva And thy seruant is in the mids of thy people, which thou hast chosen, euen a great people which cannot be told nor nobred for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is in the midst of thy/your people, which thou/you hast chosen, even a great people which cannot be told nor numberd for multitude.)

Cvdl And thy seruaunt is amonge the people whom thou hast chosen: which is so greate, that no man can nombre them ner descrybe them for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is among the people whom thou/you hast chosen: which is so great, that no man can number them nor descrybe them for multitude.)

Wycl And thi seruaunt is in the myddis of the puple, which thou hast chose, of puple with outen noumbre, that may not be noumbrid and rikened, for multitude.
(And thy/your servant is in the midst of the people, which thou/you hast chose, of people without number, that may not be numbered and rikened, for multitude.)

Luth Und dein Knecht ist unter dem Volk, das du erwählet hast, so groß, daß es niemand zählen noch beschreiben kann vor der Menge.
(And your(s) servant/farmhand is under to_him people, the you(sg) chosen have, so large, that it no_one to_count still beschreiben can before/in_front_of the/of_the crowd(n).)

ClVg Et servus tuus in medio est populi quem elegisti, populi infiniti, qui numerari et supputari non potest præ multitudine.
(And servant your(sg) in/into/on in_the_middle it_is of_the_people which I_chosesti, of_the_people infiniti, who/which numerari and supputari not/no can before multitude.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo

עַם־רָ֕ב אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְ⁠לֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵ⁠רֹֽב

people great (Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )

It might seem that saying both abundant and from abundance would be extra information that would not be natural to express in your language. If so, you could use just one expression or the other in your translation. Alternate translation: [a people who are so abundant that they cannot be numbered and cannot be counted]

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְ⁠לֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵ⁠רֹֽב

(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )

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. (If you reflect the phrase from abundance, you may not wish also to reflect the word abundant. See the discussion in the “Making Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information Explicit” note to this verse.) Alternate translation: [who from abundance cannot be numbered and cannot be counted] or [who, because they are so abundant, cannot be numbered and cannot be counted]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְ⁠לֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר

(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )

The expressions cannot be numbered and cannot be counted are passive verbal forms. If your language would not use that form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [whom no one can number and whom no one can count]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְ⁠לֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר

(Some words not found in UHB: and,servant_of,your in_the=middle people_of,your which/who chosen people great which/who not numbered and=not counted from,multitude )

The phrases cannot be numbered and cannot be counted mean similar things. Solomon is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: [who cannot be counted at all] or [whom no one can count at all]

Parallel 1 KI 3:8

Parallel 1 KI 3:8