Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Lam 3:58) | 3 tn Heb “the causes of my soul.” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of a part (= my soul) for the whole person (= me). |
| (0.43) | (Lam 3:51) | 2 tn Heb “my soul.” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of a part (= my soul) for the whole person (= me). |
| (0.43) | (Lam 3:24) | 1 tn Heb “My soul said…” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of a part (= my soul) for the whole person (= I). |
| (0.43) | (Lam 1:20) | 5 tn Heb “in the street the sword bereaves.” The words “a mother of her children” are supplied in the translation as a clarification. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 52:8) | 2 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 51:43) | 2 tn Heb “Her towns have become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land any man does not live in them [i.e., “her towns”] and a son of man [= human being] does not pass through them.” Here the present translation has followed the suggestion of BHS and a number of the modern commentaries in deleting the second occurrence of the word “land,” in which case the words that follow are not a relative clause but independent statements. A number of modern English versions appear to ignore the third plural feminine suffixes that refer back to the cities and apply the statements that follow to the land. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 51:26) | 1 sn The figure here shifts to that of a burned-up city whose stones cannot be used for building. Babylon will become a permanent heap of ruins. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 49:39) | 1 sn See a similar note on the reversal of Moab’s fortunes in Jer 48:47; compare also 46:26 for a future restoration of Egypt. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 47:4) | 1 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 39:5) | 2 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 29:24) | 2 tn It is unclear whether this is a family name or a place name. The word occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 27:3) | 1 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 25:22) | 1 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 15:11) | 1 sn The Lord interrupts Jeremiah’s complaint with a word for Jerusalem. Compare a similar interruption in discussion with Jeremiah in vv. 5-6. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 15:9) | 1 sn To have seven children was considered a blessing and a source of pride and honor (Ruth 4:15; 1 Sam 2:5). |
| (0.43) | (Jer 13:21) | 4 tn Heb “Will not pain [here = mental anguish] take hold of you like a woman giving birth.” The question is rhetorical expecting a positive answer. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 9:9) | 1 sn See 5:9, 29. This is somewhat of a refrain at the end of a catalog of Judah’s sins. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 9:5) | 1 tn Heb “their tongues.” However, this is probably not a natural idiom in contemporary English, and the tongue may stand as a part for the whole anyway. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 65:20) | 1 tn Heb “and there will not be from there again a nursing infant of days,” i.e., one that lives just a few days. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 53:2) | 4 tn Heb “that we should desire him.” The vav conjunctive prefixed to the imperfect introduces a result clause here. See GKC 504-5 §166.a. |
