Discovery Box| (0.30) | (1Sa 29:2) | 1 tn Heb “passing by with respect to hundreds and thousands.” This apparently describes a mustering of troops for the purpose of inspection and readiness. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 4:3) | 2 tn The perfect form of the verb here describes as a simple fact an action that is underway (cf. NIV, NRSV, CEV, NLT); NAB “is putting up for sale.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 2:4) | 1 tn Heb “and look”; NIV, NRSV “Just then.” The narrator invites the audience into the story, describing Boaz’s arrival as if it were witnessed by the audience. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 18:4) | 1 tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 4:18) | 2 sn Verses 15-18 give a more detailed account of the priests’ crossing that had been briefly described in v. 11. |
| (0.30) | (Num 31:12) | 3 tn Again this expression, “the Jordan of Jericho,” is used. It describes the intended location along the Jordan River, the Jordan next to or across from Jericho. |
| (0.30) | (Num 16:30) | 2 tn The figures are personifications, but they vividly describe the catastrophe to follow—which was very much like a mouth swallowing them. |
| (0.30) | (Num 7:9) | 1 tn The verb is the imperfect tense, but it describes their customary activity—they had to carry, they used to carry. |
| (0.30) | (Num 3:31) | 2 tn The word is literally “its [their] service.” It describes all the implements that were there for the maintenance of these things. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 35:21) | 2 tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 26:9) | 1 sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:21) | 1 tn The verb עָנָה (ʿanah) normally means “to answer,” but it can be used more technically to describe antiphonal singing in Hebrew and in Ugaritic. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 12:30) | 1 tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 2:24) | 1 sn The word for this painfully intense “groaning” appears elsewhere to describe a response to having two broken arms (Ezek 30:24). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 50:1) | 1 tn Heb “fell on.” The expression describes Joseph’s unrestrained sorrow over Jacob’s death; he probably threw himself across the body and embraced his father. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 49:23) | 1 tn The verb forms in vv. 23-24 are used in a rhetorical manner, describing future events as if they had already taken place. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:13) | 1 tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, laʾah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:42) | 1 tn The Hebrew word שֵׁשׁ (shesh) is an Egyptian loanword that describes the fine linen robes that Egyptian royalty wore. The clothing signified Joseph’s rank. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:8) | 3 tn The Hebrew term חַרְטֹם (khartom) is an Egyptian loanword (hyr-tp) that describes a class of priests who were skilled in such interpretations. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 38:23) | 2 tn Heb “we will become contemptible.” The Hebrew word בּוּז (buz) describes the contempt that a respectable person would have for someone who is worthless, foolish, or disreputable. |
