Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Luk 12:29) | 3 tn The words “about such things” have been supplied to qualify the meaning; the phrase relates to obtaining food and drink mentioned in the previous clause. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 12:20) | 3 tn Grk “the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” The words “for yourself” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 14:16) | 3 sn The author’s note that the disciples found things just as he had told them shows that Jesus’ word could be trusted. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 10:20) | 3 tn Grk “these things.” The referent of the pronoun (the laws mentioned by Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:3) | 2 sn Because the phrase these things is plural, more than the temple’s destruction is in view. The question may presuppose that such a catastrophe signals the end. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 19:20) | 2 tn Grk “these things.” The referent of the pronoun (the laws mentioned by Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 33:10) | 1 sn The phrase here is parallel to that in v. 4 and introduces a further amplification of the “great and mysterious things” of v. 3. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 26:15) | 1 tn Heb “For in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words/things.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 12:6) | 3 tn Heb “good things.” See BDB 373 s.v. II טוֹב 2 for this nuance and compare Prov 12:25 for usage. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 7:31) | 3 tn Heb “It never entered my heart.” The words “to command such a thing” do not appear in the Hebrew but are added for the sake of clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 42:9) | 2 tn Heb “before they sprout up, I cause you to hear.” The pronoun “you” is plural, referring to the people of Israel. In this verse “the former things” are the Lord’s earlier predictive oracles which have come to pass, while “the new things” are predicted events that have not yet begun to take place. “The former things” are earlier events in Israel’s history which God announced beforehand, such as the Exodus (see 43:16-18). “The new things” are the predictions about the servant (42:1-7). and may also include Cyrus’ conquests (41:25-27). |
| (0.30) | (Pro 29:15) | 4 sn The Hebrew participle translated “brings shame” is a metonymy of effect; the cause is the unruly and foolish things that an unrestrained child will do. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 29:5) | 2 tn The form is the Hiphil participle, literally “deals smoothly,” i.e., smoothing over things that should be brought to one’s attention. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 25:19) | 1 sn The similes in this emblematic parallelism focus on things that are incapable of performing certain activities—they are either too painful to use or are ineffective. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 16:1) | 1 sn Humans may set things in order, plan out what they are going to say, but God sovereignly enables them to put their thoughts into words. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 11:20) | 2 sn The word עִקְּשֵׁי (ʿiqqeshe, “crooked; twisted; perverted”) describes the wicked as having “twisted minds.” Their mentality is turned toward evil things. |
| (0.30) | (Job 39:30) | 1 tn The word חֲלָלִים (khalalim) designates someone who is fatally wounded, literally the “pierced one,” meaning anyone or thing that dies a violent death. |
| (0.30) | (Job 38:9) | 1 tn The temporal clause here uses the infinitive from שִׂים (sim, “to place; to put; to make”). It underscores the sovereign placing of things. |
| (0.30) | (Job 29:11) | 1 tn The words “these things” and “them” in the next colon are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Job 29:3) | 3 sn Lamp and light are symbols of God’s blessings of life and all the prosperous and good things it includes. |
