Discovery Box| (0.38) | (Pro 11:7) | 2 tn The imperfect verb can be present or future tense. It states a general truth which typically occurs in the given circumstances. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 2:6) | 2 tn The verb is an imperfect tense which probably functions as a habitual imperfect describing a universal truth in the past, present and future. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 55:5) | 2 tn Heb “covers.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the preceding imperfect. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 55:6) | 1 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the verbs in v. 5. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 21:4) | 1 tn Heb “life he asked from you.” Another option is to translate the perfect verbal forms in v. 4 with the present tense, “he asks…you grant.” |
| (0.38) | (Psa 16:10) | 4 tn That is, “experience.” The psalmist is confident that the Lord will protect him in his present crisis (see v. 1) and prevent him from dying. |
| (0.38) | (Job 24:14) | 2 tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k). |
| (0.38) | (Job 14:2) | 1 tn Heb יָצָא (yatsaʾ, “comes forth”). The perfect verb expresses characteristic action and so is translated by the present tense (see GKC 329 §111.s). |
| (0.38) | (Job 7:20) | 1 tn The simple perfect verb can be used in a conditional sentence without a conditional particle present (see GKC 494 §159.h). |
| (0.38) | (Job 6:28) | 1 tn The second verb, the imperative “turn,” is subordinated to the first imperative even though there is no vav present (see GKC 385-87 §120.a, g). |
| (0.38) | (Job 3:22) | 3 tn This sentence also parallels an imperfect verb with the substantival participle of the first colon. It is translated as an English present tense. |
| (0.38) | (Job 2:6) | 1 tn The particle הִנּוֹ (hinno) is literally, “here he is!” God presents Job to Satan, with the restriction on preserving Job’s life. |
| (0.38) | (Job 1:7) | 2 tn The imperfect may be classified as progressive imperfect; it indicates action that although just completed is regarded as still lasting into the present (GKC 316 §107.h). |
| (0.38) | (Est 8:16) | 1 tn Heb “light and gladness and joy and honor” (so NASB). The present translation understands the four terms to be a double hendiadys. |
| (0.38) | (Neh 12:20) | 1 tc The present translation reads סַלּוּ (sallu, cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT “Sallu”) rather than the MT reading סַלַּי (sallai, cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV “Sallai”) . Cf. v. 7. |
| (0.38) | (Neh 12:14) | 1 tc The present translation reads with the LXX לְמַלּוּךְ (lemallukh) rather than לִמְלוּכִי (limlukhi) of the Kethib (by dittography) or לִמְלִיכוּ (limlikhu) of the Qere. |
| (0.38) | (Neh 12:4) | 1 tc Most Hebrew MSS read “Ginnethoi”; the present translation follows a number of Hebrew MSS and the Vulgate (cf. Neh 12:16 and NIV, NCV, NLT). |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 6:27) | 1 tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translations have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV). |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 14:4) | 2 tn The word “me” is left to be inferred in the Hebrew text; it is present in the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate. |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 1:11) | 1 tc The present translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “his garments,” rather than “his garment,” the reading of the Kethib. |
