Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 32:5) | 1 tn The first clause beginning with a vav (ו) consecutive and the preterite can be subordinated to the next similar verb as a temporal clause. |
| (0.30) | (Job 23:14) | 2 sn The text is saying that many similar situations are under God’s rule of the world—his plans are infinite. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:15) | 1 tn The interrogative clause is followed by ki, similar to Exod 5:2, “Who is Yahweh, that I should obey him?” |
| (0.30) | (Est 5:8) | 1 tn Heb “if upon the king it is good.” Cf. the similar expression in v. 4, which also occurs in 7:3; 8:5; 9:13. |
| (0.30) | (Est 1:10) | 2 tn Heb “King Ahasuerus”; here the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons. Cf. similarly NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT “King Xerxes.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 8:25) | 2 tn Heb “watch their way.” The Hebrew and English colloquialisms are similar. The related ideas “way” and “steps” represent behavior in a broad sense in each language. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 1:43) | 2 tn For a similar use of אֲבָל (ʾaval), see Gen 17:19, where God rejects Abraham’s proposal and offers an alternative. |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 2:18) | 1 tn The word “now” does not appear in the Hebrew but was added as part of beginning a new topic in a new paragraph. Verse 11b begins similarly. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 4:5) | 7 tn Heb “in order to raise up the name of the deceased over his inheritance” (NASB similar); NRSV “to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 4:4) | 3 tn Heb “if you will redeem, redeem” (KJV, NASB, NRSV all similar); NCV “If you want to buy back the land, then buy it.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 3:13) | 4 tn Heb “but if he does not want to redeem you, then I will redeem you, I, [as] the Lord lives” (NASB similar). |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 6:23) | 1 tn Heb “Peace to you.” For a similar use of this idiom to introduce a reassuring word, see Gen 43:23. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 29:4) | 1 tn Heb “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear” (NASB similar); NAB, NRSV “a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.” |
| (0.30) | (Num 6:12) | 4 tc The similar expression in v. 9 includes the word “head” (i.e., “his consecrated head”). The LXX includes this word in v. 12 as well. |
| (0.30) | (Lev 22:20) | 2 tn Heb “not for acceptance shall it be for you”; NIV “it will not be accepted on your behalf” (NRSV and NLT both similar). |
| (0.30) | (Lev 4:27) | 1 tn Heb “an individual from the people of the land”; cf. NASB “anyone of the common people” (KJV, ASV both similar); NAB “a private person.” |
| (0.30) | (Lev 2:4) | 4 tn The Hebrew word מְשֻׁחִים (meshukhim) translated here as “smeared” is often translated “anointed” in other contexts. Cf. TEV “brushed with olive oil” (CEV similar). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:2) | 3 sn The construction of these clauses is similar to (ironically) the words of Moses: “Who am I that I should go?” (3:11). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:22) | 2 sn The verbs translated shed, throw, and lay sound alike in Hebrew; the repetition of similar sounds draws attention to Reuben’s words. |
| (0.28) | (Jer 20:14) | 1 sn From the heights of exaltation Jeremiah returns to the depths of despair. For similar mood swings in the psalms of lament, compare Ps 102. Verses 14-18 are similar in tone and mood to Job 3:1-10. They are very forceful rhetorical ways for Job and Jeremiah to express the wish that they had never been born. |
