(0.30) | (Gen 27:33) | 2 tn Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?” |
(0.30) | (Gen 25:6) | 2 tn Heb “And he sent them away from upon Isaac his son, while he was still living, eastward to the land of the east.” |
(0.30) | (Gen 24:8) | 2 sn You will be free. If the prospective bride was not willing to accompany the servant back to Canaan, the servant would be released from his oath to Abraham. |
(0.30) | (Gen 19:13) | 2 tn Heb “for their outcry.” The words “this place” have been moved from earlier in the sentence for stylistic reasons, and "about" has been added. |
(0.30) | (Gen 18:20) | 1 tn Heb “the outcry of Sodom,” which apparently refers to the outcry for divine justice from those (unidentified persons) who observe its sinful ways. |
(0.30) | (Gen 17:22) | 1 sn God went up from him. The text draws attention to God’s dramatic exit and in so doing brings full closure to the scene. |
(0.30) | (Gen 15:13) | 1 tn The Hebrew construction is emphatic, with the Qal infinitive absolute followed by the imperfect from יָדַע (yadaʿ, “know”). The imperfect here has an obligatory or imperatival force. |
(0.30) | (Gen 13:14) | 1 tn Heb “and the Lord said to Abram after Lot separated himself from with him.” The disjunctive clause at the beginning of the verse signals a new scene. |
(0.30) | (Gen 13:3) | 1 tn Heb “on his journeys”; the verb and noun combination means to pick up the tents and move from camp to camp. |
(0.30) | (Gen 13:1) | 2 tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.” |
(0.30) | (Gen 10:3) | 2 sn Ashkenaz was the ancestor of a northern branch of Indo-Germanic tribes, possibly Scythians. For discussion see E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 63. |
(0.30) | (Gen 10:2) | 2 sn Gomer was the ancestor of the Cimmerians. For a discussion of the Cimmerians see E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 49-61. |
(0.30) | (Gen 10:2) | 3 sn For a discussion of various proposals concerning the descendants of Magog see E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 22-24. |
(0.30) | (Gen 9:5) | 4 tn Heb “and from the hand of the man.” The article has a generic function, indicating the class, i.e., humankind. |
(0.30) | (Gen 2:5) | 3 sn The last clause in v. 5, “and there was no man to cultivate the ground,” anticipates the curse and the expulsion from the garden (Gen 3:23). |
(0.30) | (Gen 1:11) | 1 tn The Hebrew construction employs a cognate accusative, where the nominal object (“vegetation”) derives from the verbal root employed. It stresses the abundant productivity that God created. |
(0.30) | (Gen 1:4) | 3 sn The idea of separation is critical to this chapter. God separated light from darkness, upper water from lower water, day from night, etc. The verb is important to the Law in general. In Leviticus God separates between clean and unclean, holy and profane (Lev 10:10; 11:47 and 20:24); in Exodus God separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place (Exod 26:33). There is a preference for the light over the darkness, just as there will be a preference for the upper waters, the rain water which is conducive to life, over the sea water. |
(0.28) | (Rev 18:18) | 2 tn Grk “from the burning of her, saying.” For the translation “the smoke from the fire that burned her up,” see L&N 14.63. Here the participle λέγοντες (legontes, “saying”) has not been translated because it is redundant in contemporary English. |
(0.28) | (Rev 2:17) | 2 tn Or “bright.” The Greek term λευκός (leukos) can refer either to the color white (traditional here) or to an object that is bright or shining, either from itself or from an outside source of illumination (L&N 14.50; 79.27). |
(0.28) | (1Jo 4:3) | 1 tn The καί (kai) which begins 4:3 introduces the “negative side” of the test by which the spirits might be known in 4:2-3. Thus it is adversative in force: “every spirit that confesses Jesus as Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, but every Spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.” |