Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jer 10:7) | 2 tn Heb “For it is fitting to you.” |
| (0.83) | (Eze 19:11) | 1 tn The word “fit” does not occur in the Hebrew text. |
| (0.83) | (Gen 39:9) | 1 tn The nuance of potential imperfect fits this context. |
| (0.67) | (Tit 2:1) | 1 tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.). |
| (0.67) | (Joh 8:2) | 1 tn An ingressive sense for the imperfect fits well here following the aorist participle. |
| (0.67) | (Psa 93:5) | 4 tn Heb “for your house holiness is fitting, O Lord, for length of days.” |
| (0.67) | (Ezr 4:14) | 2 tn Aram “the dishonor of the king is not fitting for us to see.” |
| (0.67) | (2Ki 1:1) | 1 sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22. |
| (0.67) | (Gen 49:20) | 3 tn The word translated “delicacies” refers to foods that were delightful, the kind fit for a king. |
| (0.58) | (1Th 4:17) | 3 tn Or “simultaneously,” but this meaning does not fit as well in the parallel in 5:10. |
| (0.58) | (Oba 1:17) | 3 tn Heb “dispossess.” This root is repeated in the following line to emphasize poetic justice: The punishment will fit the crime. |
| (0.58) | (Job 36:30) | 1 tn The word actually means “to spread,” but with lightning as the object, “to scatter” appears to fit the context better. |
| (0.58) | (Job 29:25) | 1 tn All of these imperfects describe what Job used to do, and so they all fit the category of customary imperfect. |
| (0.58) | (Num 27:12) | 3 tn The imperative could be subordinated to the first to provide a purpose clause, although a second instruction fits well enough. |
| (0.50) | (Act 9:23) | 1 sn Fitting the pattern emphasized earlier with Stephen and his speech in Acts 7, some Jews plotted to kill God’s messenger (cf. Luke 11:53-54). |
| (0.50) | (Luk 9:39) | 3 sn The reaction is like an epileptic fit (see L&N 14.27). See the parallel in Matt 17:14-20. |
| (0.50) | (Mic 5:2) | 2 tn Heb “being small.” Some omit לִהְיוֹת (liheyot, “being”) because it fits awkwardly and appears again in the next line. |
| (0.50) | (Eze 20:46) | 4 tn The Hebrew term can also mean “forest,” but a meaning of uncultivated wasteland fits the Negev region far better. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:418. |
| (0.50) | (Isa 49:7) | 4 tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.” |
| (0.50) | (Ecc 9:12) | 3 tn Heb “bad, evil.” The moral connotation hardly fits here. The adjective would seem to indicate that the net is the instrument whereby the fish come to ruin. |
