Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Rev 2:12) | 4 sn On the sharp double-edged sword see 1:16. |
| (1.00) | (Isa 41:15) | 2 tn Heb “owner of two-mouths,” i.e., double-edged. |
| (0.50) | (Joe 1:5) | 1 sn The word drunkards has a double edge here. Those accustomed to drinking too much must now lament the unavailability of wine. It also may hint that the people in general have become religiously inebriated and are unresponsive to the Lord. They are, as it were, drunkards from a spiritual standpoint. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 5:4) | 4 sn The Hebrew has “like a sword of [two] mouths,” meaning a double-edged sword that devours/cuts either way. There is no movement without damage. There may be a wordplay here with this description of the “sword with two mouths,” and the subject of the passage being the words of her mouth which also have two sides to them. The irony is cut by the idiom. |
