Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Isa 53:2) | 3 tn Heb “that we might see him.” The vav conjunctive prefixed to the imperfect introduces a result clause here. See GKC 504-5 §166.a. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 49:7) | 5 tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5). |
| (0.43) | (Isa 48:4) | 2 sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 44:8) | 2 tn Heb “rock” or “rocky cliff,” a title that depicts God as a protective refuge in his role as sovereign king; thus the translation “sheltering rock.” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 42:20) | 1 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has a perfect, second person masculine singular; the marginal reading (Qere) has an infinitive absolute, which functions here as a finite verb. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 22:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he will tightly [or “surely”] wind you [with] winding like a ball, to a land broad of hands [i.e., “sides”].” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 22:3) | 3 tn Heb “apart from [i.e., without] a bow they were captured”; cf. NAB, NRSV “without the use of a bow.” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 19:20) | 2 tn Heb “a sign and a witness to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies [traditionally, “the Lord of hosts”] in the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.43) | (Isa 14:25) | 2 tn Heb “him.” This is a collective singular referring to the nation, or a reference to the king of Assyria, who by metonymy stands for the entire nation. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 12:5) | 1 tc The translation follows the marginal reading (Qere), which is a Hophal participle from יָדַע (yadaʿ), understood here in a gerundive sense. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 11:10) | 3 tn Heb “a root from Jesse, which stands for a signal flag of the nations, of him nations will inquire” [or “seek”]. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 9:20) | 2 tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite without vav consecutive or an imperfect used in a customary sense, describing continual or repeated behavior in past time. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 5:10) | 2 tn Heb “one bath.” A bath was a liquid measure. Estimates of its modern equivalent range from approximately six to twelve gallons. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 5:5) | 1 tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (baʿar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.” |
| (0.43) | (Ecc 7:26) | 3 tn The article on הָאִשָּׁה (haʾishah) functions in a particularizing sense (“the kind of woman”) rather than in a generic sense (i.e., “women”). |
| (0.43) | (Pro 31:24) | 3 tn The verb וַתִּמְכֹּר (vattimkor) is a preterite and therefore is past tense. The preterite normally portrays a sequential action in the past. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 31:20) | 1 tn The verb (פָּרְשָׁה, pareshah) is a perfect form of a dynamic verb. As such, it should be understood as past tense or perfective. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 30:28) | 1 sn The point of this saying is that a weak creature like a lizard, that is so easily caught, cannot be prevented from getting into the most significant places. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 29:23) | 1 tn Heb “pride of a man,” with “man” functioning as a possessive. There is no indication in the immediate context that this is restricted only to males. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 26:8) | 1 tn The translation “like tying a stone in a sling” seems to make the most sense, even though the word for “sling” occurs only here. |
