Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Psa 55:10) | 1 tn Heb “day and night they surround it, upon its walls.” Personified “violence and conflict” are the likely subjects. They are compared to watchmen on the city’s walls. |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 16:4) | 3 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place. |
| (0.35) | (Jos 6:3) | 1 tn Heb “and go around the city, all [you] men of war, encircling the city one time.” The Hebrew verb וְסַבֹּתֶם (vesabbotem, “and go around”) is plural, being addressed to the whole army. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 24:60) | 3 tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. In an ancient Near Eastern city the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). A similar phrase occurs in Gen 22:17. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 22:17) | 5 tn Heb “gate,” which here stands for a walled city. To break through the gate complex would be to conquer the city, for the gate complex was the main area of defense (hence the translation “stronghold”). |
| (0.35) | (Rev 22:3) | 2 tn Grk “in it”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Rev 22:2) | 1 tn Grk “its”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Rev 21:16) | 1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the somewhat parenthetical nature of the description of the city. |
| (0.35) | (Rev 18:14) | 5 tn Verse 14 is set in parentheses because in it the city, Babylon, is addressed directly in second person. |
| (0.35) | (Rev 14:8) | 6 sn The fall of Babylon the great city is described in detail in Rev 18:2-24. |
| (0.35) | (Act 28:13) | 2 sn Rhegium was a city on the southern tip of Italy. It was 80 mi (130 km) from Syracuse. |
| (0.35) | (Act 27:2) | 6 sn A Macedonian. The city of Thessalonica (modern Salonica) was in the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece. |
| (0.35) | (Act 19:21) | 5 sn Achaia was the Roman province of Achaia located across the Aegean Sea from Ephesus. Its principal city was Corinth. |
| (0.35) | (Act 16:11) | 2 sn Troas was a port city (and surrounding region) on the northwest coast of Asia Minor. See v. 8. |
| (0.35) | (Act 16:8) | 3 sn Troas was a port city (and surrounding region) on the northwest coast of Asia Minor, near ancient Troy. |
| (0.35) | (Act 13:13) | 2 sn Paphos was a city on the southwestern coast of the island of Cyprus. See Acts 13:6. |
| (0.35) | (Act 13:6) | 2 sn Paphos. A city on the southwestern coast of the island of Cyprus. It was the seat of the Roman proconsul. |
| (0.35) | (Act 13:1) | 3 sn The Cyrenian refers to a native of the city of Cyrene, on the coast of northern Africa west of Egypt. |
| (0.35) | (Act 11:27) | 6 sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19. |
| (0.35) | (Act 11:26) | 5 sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19. |
