³ tn The active participle here indicates what is imminent.

² tn The Hebrew active participle expresses an imminent action.

¹ tn The Hebrew participle expresses an imminent action here.

⁵ tn The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to indicate action in the imminent future.

² tn The Hebrew participle is often used, as here, to refer to the imminent future.

¹ tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.

² tn The translation understands the Hebrew participial form as having an imminent future sense here.

¹ tn The active participle here refers to an action that is imminent.

² tn Heb “Look! I am sending grain to you.” The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to suggest imminent action.

² tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with the active participle indicates imminent future, something God is about to do.

¹ tn The particle הִנְנִי (hineni) before the active participle indicates the imminent future action: “I am about to rain.”

¹ tn The combination of הִנֵּה (hinneh) plus the participle expresses imminent future, that he is about to do something.

² tn Heb “I am about to be gathered.” The participle is used here to describe what is imminent.

² tn The Hiphil participle מַמְטִיר (mamtir, “cause to rain”) here expresses the certainty of the act in the imminent future.

² tn Sounding the trumpet could warn of imminent danger (Neh 4:18-20; Jer 4:19; Amos 3:6).

¹ tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate that an action is imminent. See GKC 348-49 §114.i, and IBHS 610 §36.2.3g.

¹ tn The Hebrew participle indicates imminent future action here, though some English versions treat it as a predictive future (“will go ahead of you,” NCV; cf. also TEV, CEV).

¹ tn The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany.

¹ tn The construction uses הִנְנִי עֹמֵד (hineni ʿomed) to express the futur instans or imminent future of the verb: “I am going to be standing.”

¹ tn הִנְנִי מַמְטִיר (hin^eni mamtir) is the futur instans construction, giving an imminent future translation: “Here—I am about to cause it to rain.”