Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 39:13) | 2 tn The word occurs only here and means “shrill cries.” If the MT is correct, this is a poetic name for the ostrich (see Lam 4:3). |
| (0.30) | (Job 38:9) | 2 tn This noun is found only here. The verb is in Ezek 16:4, and a related noun is in Ezek 30:21. |
| (0.30) | (Job 36:19) | 2 tn This part has only two words לֹא בְצָר (loʾ betsar, “not in distress”). The negated phrase serves to explain the first colon. |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:33) | 4 tn The MT has “in my bosom.” This is the only place in the OT where this word is found. But its meaning is well attested from Aramaic. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:4) | 1 tn Job has held to his innocence, so the only way that he could say “I have erred” (שָׁגִיתִי, shagiti) is in a hypothetical clause like this. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:32) | 2 tn The consecutive clause is here attached without the use of the ו (vav), but only by simple juxtaposition (see GKC 504-5 §166.a). |
| (0.30) | (Job 3:11) | 2 tn The negative only occurs with the first clause, but it extends its influence to the parallel second clause (GKC 483 §152.z). |
| (0.30) | (Job 2:13) | 1 tn The word כְּאֵב (keʾev) means “pain”—both mental and physical pain. The translation of “grief” captures only part of its emphasis. |
| (0.30) | (Job 2:11) | 1 sn See N. C. Habel, “‘Only the Jackal is My Friend,’ On Friends and Redeemers in Job,” Int 31 (1977): 227-36. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:12) | 4 tn The Hebrew word order emphatically holds out Job’s person as the exception: “only upon him do not stretch forth your hand.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 2:31) | 1 tn Heb “sons.” The Hebrew text has the plural “sons” in all three instances in this verse, even though the following lists have only one name each. |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 1:41) | 1 tn Heb “sons.” The Hebrew text has the plural, but only one son is listed. For stylistic reasons the singular “son” was used in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 22:7) | 1 tn Heb “only the silver that is given into their hand should not be reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are acting.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 10:23) | 2 tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, but only the servants of Baal.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 8:19) | 1 tn The Hebrew has only one sentence, “and the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of.” The translation divides it for the sake of clarity. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 13:30) | 1 tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31). |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 14:7) | 2 sn My remaining coal is here metaphorical language, describing the one remaining son as her only source of lingering hope for continuing the family line. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 2:29) | 1 sn The rift valley is a large geographic feature extending from Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba. Here only a section of the Jordan Valley is in view. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 11:40) | 2 tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 9:22) | 1 tn The Hebrew verb translated “commanded” (שָׂרַר, sarar), which appears only here in Judges, differs from the ones employed earlier in this chapter (מָשַׁל [mashal] and מָלַךְ [malakh]). |
