Discovery Box| (0.54) | (Rev 13:18) | 2 sn The translation man’s number suggests that the beast’s number is symbolic of humanity in general, while the translation a man’s number suggests that it represents an individual. |
| (0.54) | (1Sa 22:18) | 1 tc The number is confused in the Greek ms tradition. The LXX, with the exception of the Lucianic recension, has the number 305. The Lucianic recension, along with a couple of Old Latin mss, has the number 350. |
| (0.54) | (1Sa 1:8) | 2 sn Like the number seven (cf. Ruth 4:15), the number 10 is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23). |
| (0.53) | (Act 13:17) | 3 tn That is, in both numbers and in power. The implication of greatness in both numbers and in power is found in BDAG 1046 s.v. ὑψόω 2. |
| (0.53) | (Dan 1:14) | 3 sn The number 10 is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number of completeness (cf. v. 20; Zech 8:23; Rev 2:10). |
| (0.53) | (1Ch 9:28) | 1 tn Heb “and from them over the articles of the task, for by number they would bring them in, and by number they would bring them out.” |
| (0.53) | (Lev 25:16) | 3 tn Heb “a number of produce”; the words “years of” are implied. As an alternative this could be translated “a number of harvests” (cf. NRSV, NLT). |
| (0.50) | (Rev 7:4) | 3 tn Normally, “every,” but since 144,000 is the total number, “all” is clearer here. |
| (0.50) | (Act 12:24) | 1 sn A metonymy for the number of adherents to God’s word. |
| (0.50) | (Luk 23:32) | 1 sn Jesus is numbered among the criminals (see Isa 53:12 and Luke 22:37). |
| (0.50) | (Luk 10:17) | 2 tc See the note on the number “seventy-two” in Luke 10:1. |
| (0.50) | (Hos 9:10) | 1 tn Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here. |
| (0.50) | (Psa 90:12) | 1 tn Heb “to number our days,” that is, to be aware of how few they really are. |
| (0.50) | (2Ch 31:6) | 2 tn Heb “heaps, heaps.” Repetition of the noun draws attention to the large number of heaps. |
| (0.50) | (1Ch 25:1) | 2 tn Heb “and their number was, the men of work for their service.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ch 23:31) | 1 tn Heb “by number according to the manner upon them, regularly before the Lord.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ch 23:3) | 1 tn Heb “and their number by their heads, by men, was 38,000.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ch 11:11) | 1 tn Heb “and these are the number of the warriors who were David’s.” |
| (0.50) | (Jdg 21:23) | 2 tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.” |
| (0.50) | (Jdg 20:2) | 2 tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification. |
