Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Exo 33:22) | 3 tn The construction has a preposition with an infinitive construct and a suffix: “while [or until] I pass by” (Heb “in the passing by of me”). |
| (0.43) | (Exo 30:32) | 1 tn Without an expressed subject, the verb may be treated as a passive. Any common use, as in personal hygiene, would be a complete desecration. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 30:3) | 3 tn Heb “and make for it border gold around.” The verb is a consecutive perfect. See Exod 25:11, where the ark also has such a molding. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 23:7) | 2 tn Heb “a false matter,” this expression in this context would have to be a case in law that was false or that could only be won by falsehood. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 23:2) | 2 tn For any individual to join a group that is bent on acting wickedly would be a violation of the Law and would incur personal responsibility. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 22:9) | 5 tn The verb means “to be guilty” in Qal; in Hiphil it would have a declarative sense because a causative sense would not possibly fit. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 19:4) | 2 sn The language here is the language of a bridegroom bringing the bride to the chamber. This may be a deliberate allusion to another metaphor for the covenant relationship. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 16:3) | 2 tn The form is a Qal infinitive construct used in a temporal clause, and the verb “when we ate” has the same structure. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 15:16) | 4 sn For a study of the words for fear, see N. Waldman, “A Comparative Note on Exodus 15:14-16, ” JQR 66 (1976): 189-92. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 14:31) | 5 sn S. R. Driver says that the belief intended here is not simply a crediting of a testimony concerning a person or a thing, but a laying firm hold morally on a person or a thing (Exodus, 122). Others take the Hiphil sense to be declarative, and that would indicate a considering of the object of faith trustworthy or dependable, and therefore to be acted on. In this passage it does not mean that here they came to faith, but that they became convinced that he would save them in the future. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 12:3) | 3 tn Heb “according to the house of their fathers.” The expression “house of the father” is a common expression for a family. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 7:12) | 1 tn The verb is plural, but the subject is singular, “a man—his staff.” This noun can be given a distributive sense: “each man threw down his staff.” |
| (0.43) | (Exo 6:3) | 1 tn The preposition bet (ב) in this construction should be classified as a bet essentiae, a bet of essence (see also GKC 379 §119.i). |
| (0.43) | (Exo 5:9) | 2 sn For a discussion of this whole section, see K. A. Kitchen, “From the Brickfields of Egypt,” TynBul 27 (1976): 137-47. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 4:11) | 1 tn The verb שִׂים (sim) means “to place, put, set”; the sentence here more precisely says, “Who put a mouth into a man?” |
| (0.43) | (Exo 3:18) | 4 tn The form used here is the cohortative of הָלַךְ (halakh). It could be a resolve, but more likely before Pharaoh it is a request. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 3:2) | 3 tn Gesenius rightly classifies this as a bet (ב) essentiae (GKC 379 §119.i); it would then indicate that Yahweh appeared to Moses “as a flame.” |
| (0.43) | (Gen 45:8) | 1 tn Heb “a father.” The term is used here figuratively of one who gives advice, as a father would to his children. |
| (0.43) | (Gen 43:7) | 5 tn The infinitive absolute emphasizes the imperfect verbal form, which here is a historic future (that is, future from the perspective of a past time). |
| (0.43) | (Gen 41:15) | 4 tn Heb “you hear a dream to interpret it,” which may mean, “you only have to hear a dream to be able to interpret it.” |
