Discovery Box| (0.42) | (Act 8:25) | 4 tn Grk “they were returning to Jerusalem and were proclaiming.” The first imperfect is taken ingressively and the second is viewed iteratively (“proclaiming…as they went”). |
| (0.42) | (Joh 9:27) | 3 tn “It” is not in the Greek text but has been supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when they were clearly implied in the context. |
| (0.42) | (Luk 17:2) | 2 tn Grk “if a millstone were tied…and he were thrown.” The conditional construction in Greek has been translated by English infinitives: “to have…and be thrown.” |
| (0.42) | (Hag 2:16) | 1 tn Heb “from their being,” idiomatic for “from the time they were then,” or “since the time.” Cf. KJV “Since those days were.” |
| (0.42) | (Eze 38:2) | 4 sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5). |
| (0.42) | (Jer 25:25) | 3 sn Elam and Media were east of Babylon, Elam in the south and Media in the north. They were in what is now western Iran. |
| (0.42) | (Isa 47:9) | 4 sn Reference is made to incantations and amulets, both of which were important in Mesopotamian religion. They were used to ward off danger and demons. |
| (0.42) | (Ezr 2:62) | 2 tn Heb “their records were searched for in the genealogical materials, but were not found.” This passive construction has been translated as active for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 8:7) | 1 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from Israel.” |
| (0.42) | (2Ki 25:13) | 1 tn Heb “the bronze pillars that were in the Lord’s house and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the Lord’s house the Babylonians broke.” |
| (0.42) | (1Ki 11:7) | 3 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2). |
| (0.42) | (1Ki 9:20) | 1 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.” |
| (0.42) | (Jos 21:42) | 1 tn Heb “these cities were city [by] city, and its grazing areas [were] around it; so [it was] for all these cities.” |
| (0.42) | (Deu 2:23) | 1 sn Avvites. Otherwise unknown, these people were probably also Anakite (or Rephaite) giants who lived in the lower Mediterranean coastal plain until they were expelled by the Caphtorites. |
| (0.42) | (Num 11:6) | 2 sn The Hebrews were complaining both about the bland taste of the manna and dehydration—they were parched in the wilderness. |
| (0.42) | (Lev 25:34) | 2 sn This refers to the region of fields just outside and surrounding the city where cattle were kept and garden crops were grown (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177). |
| (0.42) | (Exo 6:1) | 3 sn In Exod 12:33 the Egyptians were eager to send (release) Israel away in haste because they all thought they were going to die. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 11:1) | 2 tn Grk “a reed” (but these were used for measuring). Cf. Ezek 40:3ff. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 8:11) | 6 tn Grk “and many of the men died from these waters because they were bitter.” |
| (0.40) | (Rev 6:14) | 1 tn Or “The heavens were.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) can mean either “heaven” or “sky.” |
