Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Lev 5:15) | 5 sn The sanctuary shekel was about 10 grams (= ca. two-fifths of an ounce; J. E. Shepherd, NIDOTTE 4:237-38). |
| (0.35) | (Exo 34:35) | 2 tn Verbs of seeing often take two accusatives. Here, the second is the noun clause explaining what it was about the face that they saw. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 33:1) | 1 tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 22:28) | 1 tn The two verbs in this verse are synonyms: קָלַל (qalal) means “to treat lightly, curse,” and אָרַר (ʾarar) means “to curse.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 15:13) | 1 tn The verbs in the next two verses are perfect tenses, but can be interpreted as a prophetic perfect, looking to the future. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 10:5) | 5 tn הַנִּשְׁאֶרֶת (hannishʾeret) parallels (by apposition) and adds further emphasis to the preceding two words; it is the Niphal participle, meaning “that which is left over.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 5:18) | 1 tn The text has two imperatives: “go, work.” They may be used together to convey one complex idea (so a use of hendiadys): “go back to work.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 4:19) | 1 tn The text has two imperatives, “Go, return”; if these are interpreted as a hendiadys (as in the translation), then the second is adverbial. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 4:18) | 2 tn The two verbs form a verbal hendiadys, the second verb becoming adverbial in the translation: “and he went and he returned” becomes “and he went back.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 2:24) | 1 sn The word for this painfully intense “groaning” appears elsewhere to describe a response to having two broken arms (Ezek 30:24). |
| (0.35) | (Exo 3:1) | 1 sn The vav (ו) disjunctive with the name “Moses” introduces a new and important starting point. The Lord’s dealing with Moses will fill the next two chapters. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 47:20) | 1 tn The Hebrew text connects this clause with the preceding one with a causal particle (כִּי, ki). The translation divides the clauses into two sentences for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 44:22) | 2 tn The last two verbs are perfect tenses with vav consecutive. The first is subordinated to the second as a conditional clause. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 40:14) | 2 tn This perfect verbal form with the prefixed conjunction (and the two that immediately follow) carry the same force as the preceding perfect. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 39:20) | 2 sn The story of Joseph is filled with cycles and repetition: He has two dreams (chap. 37), he interprets two dreams in prison (chap. 40) and the two dreams of Pharaoh (chap. 41), his brothers make two trips to see him (chaps. 42-43), and here, for the second time (see 37:24), he is imprisoned for no good reason, with only his coat being used as evidence. For further discussion see H. Jacobsen, “A Legal Note on Potiphar’s Wife,” HTR 69 (1976): 177. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 38:25) | 1 tn Heb “she was being brought out and she sent.” The juxtaposition of two clauses, both of which place the subject before the predicate, indicates synchronic action. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 34:5) | 1 tn The two disjunctive clauses in this verse (“Now Jacob heard…and his sons were”) are juxtaposed to indicate synchronic action. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 18:7) | 2 tn The construction uses the Piel preterite, “he hurried,” followed by the infinitive construct; the two probably form a verbal hendiadys: “he quickly prepared.” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 2:9) | 3 tn The verse ends with a disjunctive clause providing a parenthetical bit of information about the existence of two special trees in the garden. |
| (0.33) | (Jud 1:6) | 5 tn The word ζόφος (zophos, “utter, deepest darkness”) is used only five times in the NT: two in 2 Peter, two in Jude, and one in Hebrews. Jude 6 parallels 2 Pet 2:4; Jude 13 parallels 2 Pet 2:17. |
