Discovery Box| (0.57) | (Lev 13:30) | 3 tn Heb “its appearance is deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “deeper than”) the skin.” |
| (0.51) | (Luk 1:32) | 2 sn Compare the description of Jesus as great here with 1:15, “great before the Lord.” Jesus is greater than John, since he is Messiah compared to a prophet. Great is stated absolutely without qualification to make the point. |
| (0.51) | (Psa 102:6) | 3 sn By comparing himself to a screech owl among the ruins, the psalmist may be highlighting his loneliness (see v. 7), though he may also be comparing his cries for help to the owl’s screech. |
| (0.50) | (1Jo 4:4) | 1 sn Them refers to the secessionist opponents, called “false prophets” in 4:1 (compare 2:19). |
| (0.50) | (1Co 12:31) | 1 tn Grk “a still more excellent way.” In this context the phrase has an elative rather than a comparative sense, however. |
| (0.50) | (Act 21:33) | 3 tn The two chains would be something like handcuffs (BDAG 48 s.v. ἅλυσις and compare Acts 28:20). |
| (0.50) | (Act 13:23) | 3 tn Grk “according to [his] promise.” The comparative clause “just as he promised” is less awkward in English. |
| (0.50) | (Luk 22:24) | 2 tn Though the term μείζων (meizōn) here is comparative in form, it is superlative in sense (BDF §244). |
| (0.50) | (Luk 2:51) | 6 sn On the phrase his mother kept all these things in her heart compare Luke 2:19. |
| (0.50) | (Amo 8:8) | 4 sn The movement of the quaking earth is here compared to the annual flooding and receding of the Nile River. |
| (0.50) | (Amo 1:2) | 2 sn The Lord, in his role of warrior-king, is compared to a lion. See 3:4, 8. |
| (0.50) | (Eze 4:16) | 1 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. |
| (0.50) | (Jer 36:30) | 2 sn Compare the more poetic prophecy in Jer 22:18-19 and see the study note on 22:19. |
| (0.50) | (Jer 32:33) | 1 tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27. |
| (0.50) | (Jer 29:2) | 2 sn See 2 Kgs 24:14-16 and compare the study note on Jer 24:1. |
| (0.50) | (Jer 8:19) | 3 tn Heb “Land of distances, i.e., of wide extent.” For parallel usage compare Isa 33:17. |
| (0.50) | (Jer 4:16) | 5 tn Heb “Besiegers.” For the use of this verb to refer to besieging a city, compare Isa 1:8. |
| (0.50) | (Isa 53:12) | 2 sn The servant is compared here to a warrior who will be richly rewarded for his effort and success in battle. |
| (0.50) | (Isa 30:26) | 2 sn The Lord is here compared to a physician setting a broken bone in a bandage or cast. |
| (0.50) | (Sos 3:6) | 2 tn The comparative “like” does not appear in the Hebrew but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity. |
