Discovery Box| (0.50) | (1Ki 19:14) | 3 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 19:10) | 4 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 19:4) | 2 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.” |
| (0.50) | (1Sa 26:21) | 1 tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.” |
| (0.50) | (1Sa 26:24) | 1 tn Heb “your life was great this day in my eyes.” |
| (0.50) | (1Sa 19:5) | 1 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.” |
| (0.50) | (Jdg 12:3) | 2 tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.” |
| (0.50) | (Jos 13:33) | 2 tn That is, “their source of food and life.” |
| (0.50) | (Jos 13:14) | 3 tn That is, “their source of food and life.” |
| (0.50) | (Deu 19:6) | 2 tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally. |
| (0.50) | (Gen 32:30) | 5 tn Heb “and my soul [= life] has been preserved.” |
| (0.49) | (Jon 2:6) | 8 tn Heb “my life.” The term חַיַּי (khayyay, “my life”) functions metonymically as a first common singular pronoun (“me”). |
| (0.49) | (Pro 14:30) | 2 tn Heb “is the life of the flesh” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NIV “gives life to the body.” |
| (0.49) | (Pro 5:6) | 3 tn Heb “the path of life.” The noun חַיִּים (khayyim, “of life”) functions as a genitive of direction (“leading to”). |
| (0.49) | (1Ki 20:39) | 5 tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.” |
| (0.49) | (Pro 6:23) | 5 tn Heb “the way of life” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV, NLT “the way to life.” The noun “life” is a genitive following the construct “way.” It could be an attributive genitive modifying the kind of way/course of life that instruction provides, but it could also be objective in that the course of life followed would produce and lead to life. |
| (0.49) | (Pro 3:2) | 2 tn Heb “length of days and years of life” (so NASB, NRSV). The idiom “length of days” refers to a prolonged life and “years of life” signifies a long time full of life, a life worth living (T. T. Perowne, Proverbs, 51). The term “life” refers to “earthly felicity combined with spiritual blessedness” (BDB 313 s.v. חַיִּים). |
| (0.45) | (Pro 12:25) | 3 tn Heb “good.” The Hebrew word “good” (טוֹב, tov) refers to what is beneficial for life, promotes life, creates life or protects life. The “good word” here would include encouragement, kindness, and insight—the person needs to regain the proper perspective on life and renew his confidence. |
| (0.45) | (Pro 11:30) | 2 tn Heb “tree of life” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV). The noun חַיִּים (khayyim, “life”) is genitive of product. What the righteous produce (“fruit”) is like a tree of life—a long and healthy life as well as a life-giving influence and provision for others. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 20:20) | 2 tn “His lamp” is a figure known as hypocatastasis (an implied comparison) meaning “his life.” Cf. NLT “the lamp of your life”; TEV “your life will end like a lamp.” |
