Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Deu 26:3) | 2 tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula. |
| (0.80) | (Isa 65:15) | 1 sn For an example of such a curse formula see Jer 29:22. |
| (0.80) | (Job 31:36) | 1 tn The clause begins with the positive oath formula, אִם־לֹא (ʾim loʾ). |
| (0.80) | (Job 2:5) | 2 sn This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there. |
| (0.80) | (Num 14:21) | 1 sn This is the oath formula, but in the Pentateuch it occurs here and in v. 28. |
| (0.70) | (Joh 9:24) | 3 tn Grk “Give glory to God” (an idiomatic formula used in placing someone under oath to tell the truth). |
| (0.70) | (1Ki 21:21) | 1 tn The introductory formula “the Lord says” is omitted in the Hebrew text, but supplied in the translation for clarification. |
| (0.70) | (Deu 10:8) | 2 sn To formulate blessings. The most famous example of this is the priestly “blessing formula” of Num 6:24-26. |
| (0.70) | (Gen 26:29) | 1 tn The oath formula is used: “if you do us harm” means “so that you will not do.” |
| (0.69) | (Job 1:11) | 3 sn The formula used in the expression is the oath formula: “if not to your face he will curse you” meaning “he will surely curse you to your face.” Satan is so sure that the piety is insincere that he can use an oath formula. |
| (0.60) | (Luk 22:57) | 3 sn The expression “I do not know him” had an idiomatic use in Jewish ban formulas in the synagogue and could mean, “I have nothing to do with him.” |
| (0.60) | (Hag 2:23) | 4 tn The repetition of the formula “says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies” in v. 23 emphasizes the solemn and divine nature of the promise. |
| (0.60) | (Eze 6:3) | 2 tn The introductory formula “Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord” parallels a pronouncement delivered by the herald of a king (2 Kgs 18:28). |
| (0.60) | (Jer 28:4) | 1 sn Notice again that the “false” prophet uses the same formula and claims the same source for his message as the true prophet has (cf. 27:22). |
| (0.60) | (Jer 12:16) | 3 tn The words “I swear” are not in the text but are implicit to the oath formula. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.60) | (Job 23:3) | 3 tn This verb also depends on מִי־יִתֵּן (mi yitten, “who will give”) of the first part, forming an additional clause in the wish formula. |
| (0.60) | (1Ki 1:48) | 2 tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor. |
| (0.60) | (1Ki 1:5) | 1 tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father. |
| (0.60) | (Num 6:2) | 1 tn The formula is used here again: “a man or a woman—when he takes.” The vow is open to both men and women. |
| (0.60) | (Gen 32:32) | 1 sn On the use of the expression to this day, see B. S. Childs, “A Study of the Formula ‘Until This Day’,” JBL 82 (1963): 279-92. |
