Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Mat 20:22) | 2 tn The verbs in Greek are plural here, indicating that Jesus is not answering the mother but has turned his attention directly to the two disciples. |
| (0.35) | (Mat 18:12) | 2 sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep. |
| (0.35) | (Mat 13:20) | 2 tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure. |
| (0.35) | (Mat 10:10) | 2 tn Grk “two tunics,” that is, wearing one and carrying one as a spare. See the note on the word “tunic” in Matt 5:40. |
| (0.35) | (Mat 7:10) | 1 sn The two questions of vv. 9-10 use a construction in Greek that expects a negative answer: “No parent would do this!” |
| (0.35) | (Mat 4:17) | 1 tn Grk “to preach and to say.” The second of the two Greek infinitives (“to say”) is redundant in English and is not included in the translation. |
| (0.35) | (Dan 8:12) | 3 tc Two medieval Hebrew MSS and the LXX have a passive verb here: “truth was hurled to the ground” (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV). |
| (0.35) | (Eze 38:2) | 4 sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5). |
| (0.35) | (Eze 17:21) | 1 tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhayv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharayv). |
| (0.35) | (Eze 1:8) | 1 tc The MT reads “his hand” while many Hebrew mss as well as the Qere read “hands of.” Two similar Hebrew letters, vav and yod, have been confused. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 27:19) | 2 tn The words “two bronze” are not in the text. They have been supplied in the translation to help identify the referent. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 18:9) | 1 sn Heb “plant.” The terms “uproot,” “tear down,” “destroy,” “build,” and “plant” are the two sides of the ministry Jeremiah was called to fulfill (cf. Jer 1:10). |
| (0.35) | (Jer 14:19) | 4 sn The last two lines of this verse are repeated word for word from 8:15. There they are spoken by the people. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 14:17) | 3 tn Heb “virgin daughter, my people.” The last noun here is appositional to the first two (genitive of apposition). Hence it is not ‘literally’ “virgin daughter of my people.” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 8:4) | 2 sn There is a play on two different nuances of the same Hebrew word that means “turn” and “return,” “turn away” and “turn back.” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 7:16) | 2 tn Heb “a ringing cry and a prayer.” The two nouns form a hendiadys meaning a prayer in the form of a ringing cry. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 6:30) | 1 tn This translation is intended to reflect the wordplay in the Hebrew text where the same root word is repeated in the two lines. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 60:17) | 2 tn The words “I will bring you” are supplied in the translation; they are understood by ellipsis (see the first two lines of the verse). |
| (0.35) | (Isa 5:27) | 1 tn Heb “and the belt on his waist is not opened, and the thong of his sandals is not torn in two.” |
| (0.35) | (Ecc 10:1) | 3 sn Qoheleth creates a wordplay by using two Hebrew words for social honor or influence: “weighty” = honorable (יָקָר, yaqar) and “heavy” = honor (כָּבוֹד, kavod). |
