1TIM 5:9 Parallel Verse View

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5:9 It’s not specified in the text what they were being enrolled for or into. It’s likely that it was a list of widows visited and/or helped by the assembly.

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
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).

ULT Let a widow be enrolled being not less than 60 years old, a wife of one husband,

UST Add a widow to the list of true widows only if she is at least 60 years old. She also must have been faithful to her husband.

BSB § A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,

BLB Let a widow be enrolled, being not less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

AICNT Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one husband,

OEB A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife,

WEBBE Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,

LSV A widow—do not let her be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

FBV Only widows over sixty who have been faithful to their husbands should be put on the list.[fn]

5:9 The list of those widows who should be helped by the church.

TCNT A widow may be put on the list to receive support if she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband,

T4T You have a list of widows who will do work for the congregation and receive money. Put women’s names on the list only if they are more than 60 years old, and if they were faithful to their husbands.

LEB Let a widow be put on the list if she[fn] is not less than sixty years old, the wife of one husband,

5:9 *Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as conditional

BBE Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Moff No Moff 1TIM book available

Wymth No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

ASV Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

DRA Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

YLT A widow — let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

Drby Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, [having been] wife of one man,

RV Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

Wbstr Let not a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man.

KJB-1769 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

KJB-1611 Let not a widow bee [fn]taken into the number, vnder threescore yeeres old, hauing bene the wife of one man,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

5:9 Or, chosen.

Bshps Let not a wydowe be chosen vnder three score yeres olde, hauyng ben the wyfe of one man.
(Let not a widow be chosen under three score years old, having been the wife of one man.)

Gnva Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,
(Let not a widow be taken into the number under three score year old, that hath/has been the wife of one husband, )

Cvdl Let no wedowe be chosen vnder threscore yeare olde, and soch one as was ye wife of one man,
(Let no wedowe be chosen under threscore year old, and such one as was ye/you_all wife of one man,)

TNT Let no wyddowe be chosen vnder threscore yere olde and soche a one as was the wyfe of one man
(Let no widow be chosen under threscore year old and soche a one as was the wife of one man )

Wycl A widewe be chosun not lesse than sixti yeer, that was wijf of oon hosebonde,
(A widow be chosen not less than sixty year, that was wife of one husband,)

Luth Laß keine Witwe erwählet werden unter sechzig Jahren, und die da gewesen sei eines Mannes Weib,
(Let no Witwe chosen become under sechzig yearsn, and the there been be one Mannes woman,)

ClVg Vidua eligatur non minus sexaginta annorum, quæ fuerit unius viri uxor,
(Vidua eligatur not/no minus sexaginta annorum, which has_been of_one viri uxor, )

UGNT χήρα καταλεγέσθω μὴ ἔλαττον ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα γεγονυῖα, ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή,
(ⱪaʸra katalegesthō maʸ elatton etōn hexaʸkonta gegonuia, henos andros gunaʸ,)

SBL-GNT Χήρα καταλεγέσθω μὴ ἔλαττον ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα γεγονυῖα, ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή,
(Ⱪaʸra katalegesthō maʸ elatton etōn hexaʸkonta gegonuia, henos andros gunaʸ,)

TC-GNT Χήρα καταλεγέσθω μὴ ἔλαττον ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα, γεγονυῖα ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή,
(Ⱪaʸra katalegesthō maʸ elatton etōn hexaʸkonta, gegonuia henos andros gunaʸ, )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / imperative3p

χήρα καταλεγέσθω

/a/_widow /let_be_being/_enrolled

If your language does not use the third-person imperative in this way, you could state this in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [A widow should be enrolled]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

χήρα καταλεγέσθω

/a/_widow /let_be_being/_enrolled

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. If you need to say who would do the action, it is clear from the context that it would be the leaders of the group of believers, including Timothy. Alternate translation: [Let the leaders enroll a widow] or [You may enroll a widow]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

χήρα καταλεγέσθω μὴ ἔλαττον

/a/_widow /let_be_being/_enrolled not lessor_‹than›

Here Paul implies that the church had a list of widows who truly needed the church to support them. In this and the following verse, Paul gives a list of qualifications for which widows could be put on this list. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make those ideas more explicit. Alternate translation: [Let a widow be counted as one of the widows who truly need help, as long as she is not less than] or [Let a widow’s name be included on the list of widows whom the church will support if she is not less than]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives

μὴ ἔλαττον

not lessor_‹than›

If it would be clearer in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the negative phrase less than. Alternate translation: [over]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή

˱of˲_one husband /the/_wife

Paul used a very similar phrase in 3:2, and you should express the idea in a similar way here. Paul could mean that the widows: (1) each must have been sexually faith to one man, her late husband. Alternate translation: [a women who was faithful to her husband] (2) each must have been married no more than once, even if the marriage ended in divorce or death. Alternate translation: [a woman who was married only once]

Parallel 1TIM 5:9