Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Nah 3:6) | 1 tn Heb “detestable things”; KJV, ASV “abominable filth”; NCV “filthy garbage.” |
| (1.00) | (Isa 5:25) | 3 tn Or “garbage” (NCV, CEV, NLT); NAB, NASB, NIV “refuse.” |
| (0.85) | (Lam 4:5) | 5 tn Heb “embrace garbage.” One may also translate “rummage through” (cf. NCV “pick through trash piles”; TEV “pawing through refuse”; NLT “search the garbage pits”). |
| (0.80) | (Neh 2:13) | 2 tn Or “Rubbish Gate” (so TEV); NASB “Refuse Gate”; NCV “Trash Gate”; CEV “Garbage Gate.” |
| (0.40) | (Amo 4:3) | 3 tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Many understand it as a place name, though such a location is not known. Some (e.g., H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia], 204) emend to “Hermon” or to similarly written words, such as “the dung heap” (NEB, NJPS), “the garbage dump” (NCV), or “the fortress” (cf. NLT “your fortresses”). |
| (0.30) | (Lam 1:17) | 2 tn The noun II נִדָּה (niddah, “unclean thing”) has three basic categories of meaning: (1) biological uncleanness: menstruation of a woman (Lev 12:2, 5; 15:19-33 [9x]; Num 19:9, 13, 20; 31:23; Ezek 18:6; 22:10; 36:17); (2) ceremonial uncleanness: moral impurity and idolatry (Lev 20:21; 2 Chr 29:5; Ezra 9:11; Zech 13:1); and (3) physical uncleanness: filthy garbage (Lam 1:17; Ezek 7:19, 20). |
