Discovery Box| (0.53) | (Job 16:22) | 1 tn The expression is “years of number,” meaning that they can be counted, and so “the years are few.” The verb simply means “comes” or “lie ahead.” |
| (0.53) | (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). |
| (0.53) | (Job 10:3) | 5 tn The Hiphil of the verb יָפַע (yafaʿ) means “shine.” In this context the expression “you shine upon” would mean “have a glowing expression,” be radiant, or smile. |
| (0.53) | (Job 9:18) | 1 tn The verb נָתַן (natan) essentially means “to give,” but followed by the infinitive (without the ל [lamed] here) it means “to permit; to allow.” |
| (0.53) | (Job 2:11) | 4 tn The verb can mean that they “agreed together,” but it also (and more likely) means that they came together at a meeting point to go visit Job together. |
| (0.53) | (Job 2:10) | 3 tn The verb קִבֵּל (qibbel) means “to accept, receive.” It is attested in the Amarna letters with the meaning “receive meekly, patiently.” |
| (0.53) | (1Sa 7:12) | 2 sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name. |
| (0.53) | (Deu 5:16) | 1 tn The imperative here means, literally, “regard as heavy” (כַּבֵּד, kabbed). The meaning is that great importance must be ascribed to parents by their children. |
| (0.53) | (Num 22:24) | 1 tn The word means a “narrow place,” having the root meaning “to be deep.” The Greek thought it was in a field in a narrow furrow. |
| (0.53) | (Num 11:28) | 1 tn The form is the Piel participle מְשָׁרֵת (mesharet), meaning “minister, servant, assistant.” The word has a loftier meaning than the ordinary word for slave. |
| (0.53) | (Num 6:11) | 6 tn The verb simply means “to consecrate,” but because it refers to a vow that was interrupted, it must here mean to “reconsecrate.” |
| (0.53) | (Exo 34:24) | 1 tn The verb is a Hiphil imperfect of יָרַשׁ (yarash), which means “to possess.” In the causative stem it can mean “dispossess” or “drive out.” |
| (0.53) | (Exo 23:9) | 1 tn The verb means “to crush.” S. R. Driver notes that in this context this would probably mean with an unfair judgment in the courts (Exodus, 239). |
| (0.53) | (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.” |
| (0.53) | (Exo 15:9) | 4 tn The verb is יָרַשׁ (yarash), which in the Hiphil means “to dispossess” or “root out.” The meaning “destroy” is a general interpretation. |
| (0.53) | (Exo 8:16) | 2 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive, meaning “and it will be.” When הָיָה (hayah) is followed by the lamed (ל) proposition, it means “become.” |
| (0.53) | (Exo 2:18) | 1 tn The verb means “to go, to come, to enter.” In this context it means that they returned to their father, or came home. |
| (0.53) | (Gen 50:16) | 1 tn The verb means “command,” but they would hardly be commanding him. It probably means they sent their father’s instructions to Joseph. |
| (0.53) | (Gen 35:10) | 1 sn The name Israel means “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). See Gen 32:28. |
| (0.50) | (Rev 19:15) | 4 tn Or “scepter.” The Greek term ῥάβδος (rhabdos) can mean either “rod” or “scepter.” |
