Discovery Box| (0.61) | (Joh 19:39) | 4 sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse. |
| (0.61) | (Joh 18:12) | 1 tn Grk “a cohort” (but since this was a unit of 600 soldiers, a smaller detachment is almost certainly intended). |
| (0.61) | (Joh 12:3) | 1 tn Or “half a liter”; Grk “a pound” (that is, a Roman pound, about 325 grams or 12 ounces). |
| (0.61) | (Luk 7:41) | 1 sn A creditor was a moneylender, whose business was to lend money to others at a fixed rate of interest. |
| (0.61) | (Luk 1:8) | 3 sn Zechariah’s division would be on duty twice a year for a week at a time. |
| (0.61) | (Mic 7:14) | 1 tn The Hebrew term שֵׁבֶט (shevet) can refer to a rod, such as a ṣhepherd’s rod, or a “scepter.” |
| (0.61) | (Isa 34:4) | 2 tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.” |
| (0.61) | (Isa 30:26) | 2 sn The Lord is here compared to a physician setting a broken bone in a bandage or cast. |
| (0.61) | (Isa 29:17) | 1 tn The Hebrew text phrases this as a rhetorical question, “Is it not yet a little, a short [time]?” |
| (0.61) | (Sos 8:9) | 4 tn Heb “a board.” The singular noun לוּחַ (luakh, “board, plank”) may denote a singular of number or a collective. |
| (0.61) | (Pro 27:15) | 1 tn Heb “a wife of contentions” (an attributive genitive). Cf. NAB, NIV “a quarrelsome wife”; NLT “a nagging wife.” |
| (0.61) | (Job 33:6) | 1 tn The verb means “nipped off,” as a potter breaks off a piece of clay when molding a vessel. |
| (0.61) | (2Ch 2:14) | 1 tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.” |
| (0.61) | (1Ki 9:7) | 3 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach. |
| (0.61) | (2Sa 7:6) | 1 tn Heb “in a tent and in a dwelling.” The expression is a hendiadys, using two terms to express one idea. |
| (0.61) | (1Sa 7:9) | 1 tn Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.” |
| (0.61) | (Num 30:2) | 2 tn The Hebrew text uses a cognate accusative construction to express this: “a man if he vows a vow.” |
| (0.61) | (Lev 19:14) | 1 tn Heb “You shall not curse a deaf [person] and before a blind [person] you shall not put a stumbling block.” |
| (0.61) | (Lev 2:7) | 1 tn Heb “a grain offering of a pan”; cf. KJV “fryingpan”; NAB “pot”; CEV “pan with a lid on it.” |
| (0.61) | (Exo 30:34) | 2 sn This is from a word that means “to drip”; the spice is a balsam that drips from a resinous tree. |
