Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Eze 30:17) | 1 sn On and Pi Beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis. |
| (0.40) | (Eze 27:4) | 1 tn The city of Tyre is described in the following account as a merchant ship. |
| (0.40) | (Eze 22:2) | 2 tn The phrase “bloody city” is used of Nineveh in Nah 3:1. |
| (0.40) | (Eze 9:4) | 1 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.” |
| (0.40) | (Lam 2:18) | 4 tn The wall is a synecdoche of a part standing for the whole city. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 32:28) | 2 tn Heb “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of…” |
| (0.40) | (Jer 32:24) | 1 tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.” |
| (0.40) | (Jer 8:14) | 2 tn Heb “Gather together and let us enter into the fortified cities.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 22:9) | 1 tn Heb “the breaks of the City of David, you saw that they were many.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 22:2) | 1 tn Heb “the boisterous town.” The phrase is parallel to “the noisy city” in the preceding line. |
| (0.40) | (Isa 4:5) | 1 tn Heb “over all the place, Mount Zion.” Cf. NLT “Jerusalem”; CEV “the whole city.” |
| (0.40) | (Pro 31:23) | 2 tn Heb “gate”; the term “city” has been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Pro 10:15) | 2 tn Heb “a city of his strength.” The genitive עֹז (ʿoz, “strength”) functions as an attributive genitive: “strong city” = “fortified city.” This phrase is a metaphor; wealth protects its possessors against adversity like a fortified city. Such wealth must be attained by diligence and righteous means (e.g., 13:8; 18:23; 22:7). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 127:1) | 4 sn The city symbolizes community security, which is the necessary framework for family security. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 89:40) | 1 tn The king here represents the land and cities over which he rules. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 72:16) | 10 tc The MT has “from the city.” The translation assumes an emendation to עֲמִיר (ʿamir, “crops”). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 46:4) | 1 tn Heb “A river, its channels cause the city of God to be glad.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 18:45) | 4 tn Heb “their prisons.” The besieged cities of the foreigners are compared to prisons. |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 31:1) | 4 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession to their cities.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 19:10) | 1 tn Heb “and every case which comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities.” |
