(0.50) | (Isa 5:13) | 2 tn The suffixed (perfect) form of the verb is used; in this way the coming event is described for rhetorical effect as occurring or as already completed. |
(0.50) | (Pro 31:25) | 4 sn Here “laugh” is either a metonymy of adjunct or effect. The point is that she is confident for the future because of all her industry and planning. |
(0.50) | (Pro 29:15) | 4 sn The Hebrew participle translated “brings shame” is a metonymy of effect; the cause is the unruly and foolish things that an unrestrained child will do. |
(0.50) | (Pro 28:17) | 2 sn The text has “the blood of a life”; blood will be the metonymy of effect for the murder, the shedding of blood. |
(0.50) | (Pro 22:12) | 4 sn The proverb affirms that God in safeguarding true knowledge will frustrate deception from faithless people—what they say will not have its intended effect. |
(0.50) | (Pro 21:13) | 1 sn The imagery means “pay no attention to” the cry for help or “refuse to help,” so it is a metonymy of cause for the effect. |
(0.50) | (Pro 19:15) | 4 sn The two lines are related in a metonymical sense: “deep sleep” is the cause of going hungry, and “going hungry” is the effect of deep sleep. |
(0.50) | (Pro 1:11) | 3 tn Heb “for blood.” The term דָּם (dam, “blood”) functions as a metonymy of effect for “blood shed violently” through murder (HALOT 224 s.v. 4). |
(0.50) | (Psa 102:4) | 3 sn I am unable to eat food. During his time of mourning, the psalmist refrained from eating. In the following verse he describes metaphorically the physical effects of fasting. |
(0.50) | (Psa 45:2) | 4 tn Or “blesses you forever.” Here “bless” means to “endue with the power and skill to rule effectively,” as the following verses indicate. |
(0.50) | (Psa 34:21) | 2 tn Heb “are guilty,” but the verb is sometimes used metonymically with the meaning “to suffer the consequences of guilt,” the effect being substituted for the cause. |
(0.50) | (Psa 2:5) | 1 sn And terrifies them in his rage. This line focuses on the effect that God’s angry response (see previous line) has on the rebellious kings. |
(0.50) | (Job 18:11) | 1 sn Bildad is referring here to all the things that afflict a person and cause terror. It would then be a metonymy of effect, the cause being the afflictions. |
(0.50) | (Job 11:7) | 2 tn The word means “search; investigation,” but it here means what is discovered in the search (so a metonymy of cause for the effect). |
(0.50) | (Job 8:21) | 2 sn “Laughter” (and likewise “gladness”) will here be metonymies of effect or adjunct, being put in place of the reason for the joy—restoration. |
(0.50) | (Job 6:7) | 2 tn For the explanation of the perfect verb with its completed action in the past and its remaining effects, see GKC 311 §106.g. |
(0.50) | (Neh 13:21) | 3 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted. |
(0.50) | (Ezr 7:10) | 2 tn Heb “to do and to teach.” The expression may be a hendiadys, in which case it would have the sense of “effectively teaching.” |
(0.50) | (2Ki 1:16) | 2 tn Heb “Because you sent… therefore you will not leave.” The rhetorical question is a parenthetical remark inserted into the proposition for dramatic effect. |
(0.50) | (1Ki 13:1) | 1 tn Heb The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect. |