Discovery Box| (0.49) | (Exo 17:13) | 3 tn Heb “mouth of the sword.” It means as the sword devours—without quarter (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 159). |
| (0.43) | (Job 5:20) | 2 tn Heb “from the hand of the sword.” This is idiomatic for “the power of the sword.” The expression is also metonymical, meaning from the effect of the sword, which is death. |
| (0.42) | (Hag 2:22) | 2 tn Heb “and horses and their riders will go down, a man with a sword his brother”; KJV “every one by the sword of his brother.” |
| (0.42) | (Jer 48:2) | 5 tn Heb “A sword will follow after you.” The sword is again figurative of destructive forces, here the army of the Babylonians. |
| (0.42) | (Jer 11:22) | 3 tn Heb “will die by the sword.” Here “sword” stands contextually for “battle,” while “starvation” stands for death by starvation during siege. |
| (0.42) | (Lev 26:6) | 4 tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 2:12) | 4 sn On the sharp double-edged sword see 1:16. |
| (0.40) | (Amo 7:9) | 2 tn Heb “And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.” |
| (0.40) | (Hos 2:18) | 3 tn Heb “bow and sword and warfare.” The first two terms in the triad וְקֶשֶׁת וְחֶרֶב וּמִלְחָמָה (veqeshet vekherev umilkhamah, “and bow and sword and warfare”) are examples of synecdoche of specific (bow and sword) for general (weapons of war; so CEV). However, they might be examples of metonymy (bow and sword) of association (warfare). |
| (0.40) | (Eze 28:7) | 2 tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.” |
| (0.40) | (Eze 21:29) | 2 tn The antecedent for you is the sword mentioned in v. 28. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 46:10) | 3 tn Heb “The sword will eat and be sated; it will drink its fill from their blood.” |
| (0.40) | (Jer 33:4) | 1 tn Heb “the sword.” The figure has been interpreted for the sake of clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 14:13) | 4 tn Heb “You will not see sword and you will not have starvation [or hunger].” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 31:8) | 1 tn Heb “Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 13:15) | 2 tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 59:7) | 1 tn Heb “look, they gush forth with their mouth, swords [are] in their lips.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 55:21) | 3 tn Heb “his words are softer than oil, but they are drawn swords.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 17:13) | 3 tn Heb “rescue my life from the wicked [one] [by] your sword.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ki 3:26) | 2 tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.” |
