Discovery Box| (0.49) | (2Sa 7:23) | 5 tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.” |
| (0.49) | (Num 16:13) | 1 tn The question is rhetorical. It was not a small thing to them—it was a big thing. |
| (0.43) | (Act 17:20) | 2 tn Grk “these things,” but since the referent (“surprising things”) is so close, the repetition of “these things” sounds redundant in English, so the pronoun “they” was substituted in the translation. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 8:13) | 3 tn Heb “and a mouth of perverse things.” The word “mouth” is a metonymy of cause for what is said; and the noun תַהְפֻּכוֹת (tahpukhot, “perverse things”) means destructive things (the related verb is used for the overthrowing of Sodom). |
| (0.43) | (Rev 1:19) | 1 tn Grk “Therefore write the things that you saw, and the things that are, and the things that will take place after these things.” Verse 19 could also be translated (taking καί…καί [kai…kai] as “both…and”): “Therefore write what you have seen, both what things currently are and what is going to happen after these things.” The structure of this verse is debated. |
| (0.42) | (2Co 11:28) | 1 sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned. |
| (0.42) | (Act 15:18) | 1 sn Who makes these things known. The remark emphasizes how God’s design of these things reaches back to the time he declared them. |
| (0.42) | (Luk 19:42) | 2 tn Grk “the things toward peace.” This expression seems to mean “the things that would ‘lead to,’ ‘bring about,’ or ‘make for’ peace.” |
| (0.42) | (Mal 3:13) | 1 tn Heb “your words are hard [or “strong”] against me”; cf. NIV “said harsh things against me”; TEV, NLT “said terrible things about me.” |
| (0.42) | (Lam 1:10) | 2 tc The Kethib is written מַחֲמוֹדֵּיהֶם (makhamodehem, “her desired things”); the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss read מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶם (makhamaddehem, “her desirable things”). The Qere reading should be adopted. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 15:23) | 3 tn Heb “in its season.” To say the right thing at the right time is useful; to say the right thing at the wrong time is counterproductive. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 8:21) | 3 tc The LXX adds at the end of this verse: “If I declare to you the things of daily occurrence, I will remember to recount the things of old.” |
| (0.42) | (Job 12:3) | 3 tn Heb “With whom are not such things as these?” The point is that everyone knows the things that these friends have been saying—they are commonplace. |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
| (0.42) | (1Sa 2:23) | 1 tn The MT reads, “Why do you act according to these things which I am hearing—evil things—from all these people?” |
| (0.40) | (Rev 22:8) | 1 tn Or “I am John, the one who heard and saw these things.” |
| (0.40) | (Rev 20:12) | 4 tn Grk “from the things written in the books according to their works.” |
| (0.40) | (Rev 16:5) | 3 tn Or “because you have judged these things.” The pronoun ταῦτα (tauta) is neuter gender. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 1:3) | 5 sn The time refers to the time when the things prophesied would happen. |
| (0.40) | (2Pe 3:16) | 1 tn Grk “as also in all his letters speaking in them of these things.” |
