Discovery Box| (1.00) | (2Ch 27:5) | 1 tn Heb “he fought with.” |
| (1.00) | (Jos 24:9) | 1 tn Heb “arose and fought.” |
| (1.00) | (Exo 17:8) | 3 tn Or “fought with.” |
| (0.88) | (2Ch 26:6) | 1 tn Heb “went out and fought.” |
| (0.75) | (2Ki 12:17) | 1 tn Heb “went up and fought against.” |
| (0.75) | (Jdg 11:5) | 1 tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.” |
| (0.63) | (Jos 10:5) | 1 tn Heb “and they camped against Gibeon and fought against it.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ch 19:17) | 3 tn Heb “and David was deployed to meet Aram [for] battle and they fought with him.” |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 20:1) | 2 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.” |
| (0.50) | (2Sa 2:28) | 2 tn Heb “they no longer chased after Israel and they no longer fought.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 9:21) | 1 tn The words “fought against” are supplied in the translation both here and later in this verse for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.44) | (Gen 14:9) | 2 tn The Hebrew text has simply “against.” The word “fought” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.38) | (Isa 20:1) | 1 tn Heb “In the year the commanding general came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.” |
| (0.38) | (1Ch 18:10) | 3 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 8:10) | 4 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.” |
| (0.31) | (1Ki 22:45) | 1 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoshaphat, and his strength that he demonstrated and how he fought, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?” |
| (0.31) | (1Ki 14:19) | 1 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he ruled, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?” |
| (0.31) | (Gen 15:1) | 1 sn The noun “shield” recalls the words of Melchizedek in 14:20. If God is the shield, then God will deliver. Abram need not fear reprisals from those he has fought. |
| (0.25) | (Hos 12:3) | 1 tn The verb שָׂרָה (sarah) means “to strive, contend” (HALOT 1354 s.v. שׂרה) or “persevere, persist” (BDB 975 s.v. שָׂרָה; see Gen 32:29). Almost all English versions render the verb here in terms of the former: NAB, NASB “contended”; NRSV “strove”; TEV, CEV “fought against.” |
| (0.25) | (Job 39:21) | 2 tn The armies would prepare for battles that were usually fought in the valleys, and so the horse was ready to charge. But in Ugaritic the word ʿmk means “force” as well as “valley.” The idea of “force” would fit the parallelism here well (see M. Dahood, “Value of Ugaritic for textual criticism,” Bib 40 [1959]: 166). |
