(0.30) | (Num 25:5) | 1 tn Heb “slay—a man his men.” The imperative is plural, and so “man” is to be taken collectively as “each of you men.” |
(0.30) | (Num 24:21) | 1 sn A pun is made on the name Kenite by using the word “your nest” (קִנֶּךָ, qinnekha); the location may be the rocky cliffs overlooking Petra. |
(0.30) | (Num 23:23) | 4 tn The Niphal imperfect here carries the nuance of obligation—one has to say in amazement that God has done something marvelous or “it must be said.” |
(0.30) | (Num 23:10) | 2 tn The perfect tense can also be classified as a potential nuance. It does not occur very often, but does occur several times. |
(0.30) | (Num 22:24) | 1 tn The word means a “narrow place,” having the root meaning “to be deep.” The Greek thought it was in a field in a narrow furrow. |
(0.30) | (Num 22:11) | 3 tn The verb is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive. It either carries the force of an imperfect tense, or it may be subordinated to the preceding verbs. |
(0.30) | (Num 21:23) | 3 tn The clause begins with a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive, but may be subordinated to the next preterite as a temporal clause. |
(0.30) | (Num 21:8) | 1 tn The word order is slightly different in Hebrew: “and it shall be anyone who is bitten when he looks at it he shall live.” |
(0.30) | (Num 20:24) | 1 sn This is the standard poetic expression for death. The bones would be buried, often with the bones of relatives in the same tomb, giving rise to the expression. |
(0.30) | (Num 18:30) | 1 tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites. |
(0.30) | (Num 18:24) | 2 tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject (although the “Israelites” is certainly intended), and so it can be rendered as a passive. |
(0.30) | (Num 16:37) | 3 tn The Hebrew text just has “fire,” but it would be hard to conceive of this action apart from the idea of coals of fire. |
(0.30) | (Num 15:32) | 1 tn The preterite of the verb “to be” is here subordinated to the next, parallel verb form, to form a temporal clause. |
(0.30) | (Num 15:18) | 1 tn The relative clause is literally, “which I am causing you to enter there.” The final adverb is resumptive, and must be joined with the relative pronoun. |
(0.30) | (Num 15:14) | 4 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied. |
(0.30) | (Num 14:19) | 2 tn The construct unit is “the greatness of your loyal love.” This is the genitive of specification, the first word being the modifier. |
(0.30) | (Num 13:32) | 2 tn Heb “which we passed over in it”; the pronoun on the preposition serves as a resumptive pronoun for the relative, and need not be translated literally. |
(0.30) | (Num 13:26) | 1 tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other. |
(0.30) | (Num 13:2) | 2 tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.” |
(0.30) | (Num 13:2) | 1 tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.” |