Discovery Box| (1.00) | (1Ki 15:4) | 1 tn Heb “gave him a lamp.” |
| (0.71) | (Lev 24:2) | 2 tn Heb “to cause to ascend a lamp continually.” |
| (0.71) | (Exo 27:20) | 2 tn Heb “lamp,” which must be a collective singular here. |
| (0.62) | (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.” |
| (0.61) | (Mar 4:21) | 1 sn The lamp is probably an ancient oil burning lamp or perhaps a candlestick. Jesus is comparing revelation to light, particularly the revelation of his ministry. |
| (0.61) | (Pro 13:9) | 3 sn The lamp is an implied comparison as well, comparing the life of the wicked to a lamp that is going to be extinguished. |
| (0.61) | (Psa 132:17) | 2 tn Heb “I have arranged a lamp for my anointed one.” Here the “lamp” is a metaphor for the Davidic dynasty (see 1 Kgs 11:36). |
| (0.57) | (Luk 12:35) | 2 sn Keep your lamps burning means to be ready at all times. |
| (0.57) | (Luk 11:36) | 4 tn Grk “it will be completely illumined as when a lamp illumines you with its rays.” |
| (0.57) | (Mat 25:3) | 3 tn On the use of olive oil in lamps, see L&N 6.202. |
| (0.57) | (Jer 52:18) | 2 sn These trimming shears were used to trim the wicks of the lamps. |
| (0.57) | (Psa 119:105) | 2 tn Heb “[is] a lamp for my foot and a light for my path.” |
| (0.57) | (Job 18:6) | 1 tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.” |
| (0.51) | (2Ch 21:7) | 3 tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty. |
| (0.51) | (2Ki 8:19) | 2 tn Heb “just as he had said to him, to give to him a lamp for his sons all the days.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty; this is reflected in the translation. |
| (0.49) | (Num 8:2) | 1 tn The verb is עָלָה (ʿalah). The Hiphil infinitive construct functions in a temporal clause. The idea of arranging the lamps on the lampstand certainly involved raising the lamps and placing them on the tops of each shaft and branch. Some have taken the idea to mean cause the flame to go up, or light the lamps. |
| (0.43) | (Act 20:8) | 1 tn More commonly λαμπάς (lampas) means “torch,” but here according to BDAG 585 s.v. λαμπάς 2, “lamp…w. a wick and space for oil.” |
| (0.43) | (Zec 4:4) | 1 sn Here these must refer to the lamps, since the identification of the olive trees is left to vv. 11-14. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 20:20) | 2 sn For the lamp to be extinguished would mean death (e.g., 13:9) and possibly also the removal of posterity (R. N. Whybray, Proverbs [CBC], 115). |
| (0.43) | (Psa 90:8) | 2 tn Heb “what we have hidden to the light of your face.” God’s face is compared to a light or lamp that exposes the darkness around it. |
