Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Eze 33:6) | 2 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.” |
| (0.40) | (Jer 29:13) | 1 tn Or “If you wholeheartedly seek me”; Heb “You will seek me and find [me] because you will seek me with all your heart.” The translation attempts to reflect the theological nuances of “seeking” and “finding” and the psychological significance of “heart,” which refers more to intellectual and volitional concerns in the OT than to emotional ones. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 2:33) | 1 tn Heb “How good you have made your ways to seek love.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 65:1) | 2 tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 34:16) | 1 tn Heb “Seek from upon the scroll of the Lord and read.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 142:4) | 3 tn Heb “there is no one who seeks for the sake of my life.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 86:14) | 3 tn Heb “seek my life and do not set you before them.” See Ps 54:3. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 54:3) | 3 tn Heb “and ruthless ones seek my life, they do not set God in front of them.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 53:2) | 4 tn That is, who seeks to have a relationship with God by obeying and worshiping him. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 24:6) | 1 tn Heb “this [is the] generation of the ones seeking him, the ones seeking your face, Jacob.” To “seek the Lord’s face” means to seek his favor through prayer (see 2 Sam 21:1; Pss 27:8; 105:4). |
| (0.40) | (Est 10:3) | 3 tn Heb “he was seeking”; NAB “as the promoter of his people’s welfare.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 25:15) | 1 tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 12:14) | 1 tn Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 7:14) | 2 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance. |
| (0.40) | (1Ch 22:19) | 1 tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the Lord your God.” |
| (0.40) | (1Ch 13:3) | 2 tn Heb “him.” In this case, seeking God’s will is what is implied. |
| (0.40) | (2Ki 5:7) | 2 tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.” |
| (0.35) | (Act 10:21) | 2 tn Grk “Behold, it is I whom you seek,” or “Behold, I am the one you seek.” “Here I am” is used to translate ἰδοὺ ἐγώ εἰμι (idou egō eimi). |
| (0.35) | (Eze 3:18) | 3 tn Heb “his blood I will seek from your hand.” The expression “seek blood from the hand” is equivalent to requiring the death penalty (2 Sam 4:11-12). |
| (0.35) | (Lam 3:25) | 2 tn Heb “to the soul…” The term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) is a synecdoche of a part (= “the soul who seeks him”) for the whole person (= “the person who seeks him”). |
