Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Jer 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “Will you be to me like a deceptive (brook), like waters which do not last [or are not reliable].” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 40:22) | 5 tn Heb “like a tent [in which] to live”; NAB, NASB “like a tent to dwell (live NIV, NRSV) in.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 34:4) | 2 tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 141:2) | 1 tn Heb “may my prayer be established [like] incense before you, the uplifting of my hands [like] an evening offering.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 2:9) | 3 sn Like a potter’s jar. Before the Davidic king’s awesome power, the rebellious nations are like fragile pottery. |
| (0.50) | (Job 13:2) | 1 tn Heb “Like your knowledge”; in other words Job is saying that his knowledge is like their knowledge. |
| (0.50) | (Jos 14:11) | 1 tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 61:10) | 5 tn Heb “like a bridegroom [who] acts like a priest [by wearing] a turban, and like a bride [who] wears her jewelry.” The words “I look” are supplied for stylistic reasons and clarification. |
| (0.44) | (Psa 38:13) | 1 sn I am like a deaf man…like a mute. The psalmist is like a deaf mute; he is incapable of defending himself and is vulnerable to his enemies’ deception (see v. 14). |
| (0.44) | (Exo 9:24) | 4 tn A literal reading of the clause would be “which there was not like it in all the land of Egypt.” The relative pronoun must be joined to the resumptive pronoun: “which like it (like which) there had not been.” |
| (0.43) | (Act 27:14) | 1 tn Grk “a wind like a typhoon.” That is, a very violent wind like a typhoon or hurricane (BDAG 1021 s.v. τυφωνικός). |
| (0.43) | (Joh 1:32) | 3 sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation. |
| (0.43) | (Mar 1:10) | 3 sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation. |
| (0.43) | (Mat 3:16) | 5 sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation. |
| (0.43) | (Hos 13:7) | 2 tn Heb “So I will be like a lion to them” (so NASB); cf. NIV “I will come upon them like a lion.” |
| (0.43) | (Hos 4:9) | 1 tn Heb “And it shall be, like people, like priest” (so ASV); cf. NAB “The priests shall fare no better than the people.” |
| (0.43) | (Hos 1:2) | 7 tn Heb “and children of harlotries.” However, TEV takes the phrase to mean the children will behave like their mother: “your children will be just like her.” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 66:12) | 1 tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 53:3) | 2 tn Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see BDB 712 s.v. מַסְתֵּר). |
| (0.43) | (1Ki 3:12) | 5 tn Heb “so that there has not been one like you prior to you, and after you one will not arise like you.” |
