Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Act 18:20) | 1 sn He would not consent. Paul probably refused because he wanted to reach Jerusalem for the festival season before the seas became impassable during the winter. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 19:42) | 1 sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 23:54) | 1 sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 19:28) | 2 tn This could mean “before [his disciples],” but that is slightly more awkward, requiring an elided element (the disciples) to be supplied. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 17:8) | 1 tn The question includes a Greek particle, οὐχί (ouchi), that expects a positive reply. The slave is expected to prepare a meal before eating himself. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 11:9) | 2 sn The three present imperatives in this verse (Ask…seek…knock) are probably intended to call for a repeated or continual approach before God. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 2:43) | 1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated contrastively in keeping with the context. This outcome is different from what had happened all the times before. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 2:42) | 2 sn According to the Mishnah, the age of twelve years old is one year before a boy becomes responsible for his religious commitments (m. Niddah 5.6). |
| (0.30) | (Luk 2:35) | 2 sn The remark the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed shows that how people respond to Jesus indicates where their hearts really are before God. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 15:42) | 2 sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 1:18) | 1 tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3). |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:2) | 1 tn Heb “before the giving birth of a decree.” For various alternative readings, see J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 187-88. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 2:13) | 1 tn Heb “the one who breaks through goes up before them.” The verb form is understood as a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of this coming event. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 7:2) | 2 tn Heb “they [the sinful deeds] are before my face” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); cf. NCV “they are right in front of me.” |
| (0.30) | (Lam 1:20) | 4 tn Heb “because I was certainly rebellious.” Using the infinitive absolute before the finite verb of the same root emphasizes the verb’s modality, here indicative mode. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 42:2) | 1 tn Heb “please let our petition fall before you.” For the idiom here see 37:20 and the translator’s note there. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 5:22) | 1 tn Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 53:3) | 2 tn Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see BDB 712 s.v. מַסְתֵּר). |
| (0.30) | (Isa 38:3) | 1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 20:8) | 3 sn The phrase with his eyes indicates that the king will closely examine or look into all the cases that come before him. |
