Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Pro 21:13) | 2 sn “Cry” here would be a metonymy of effect for the cause, the cause being the great needs of the poor. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 18:9) | 4 tn Heb “possessor of destruction.” This idiom means “destroyer” (so ASV); KJV “a great waster”; NRSV “a vandal.” |
| (0.35) | (Psa 41:9) | 2 tn Heb “has made a heel great against me.” The precise meaning of this phrase, which appears only here, is uncertain. |
| (0.35) | (Job 26:11) | 1 sn H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 173) says these are the great mountains, perceived to hold up the sky. |
| (0.35) | (Est 10:3) | 1 tn Heb “great among the Jews” (so KJV, NASB); NIV “preeminent among the Jews”; NRSV “powerful among the Jews.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 4:18) | 1 tn Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance so that the weight of the bronze was not sought.” |
| (0.35) | (1Ch 22:5) | 2 tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.” |
| (0.35) | (1Ki 7:47) | 1 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.” |
| (0.35) | (2Sa 22:36) | 3 tn Heb “your answer makes me great.” David refers to God’s willingness to answer his prayer. |
| (0.35) | (2Sa 7:23) | 5 tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.” |
| (0.35) | (1Sa 2:10) | 6 tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24. |
| (0.35) | (Jdg 7:12) | 1 tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.” |
| (0.35) | (Deu 6:3) | 1 tn Heb “may multiply greatly” (so NASB, NRSV); the words “in number” have been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (Lev 19:15) | 3 tn Heb “You shall not lift up faces of poor [people] and you shall not honor faces of great.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 32:31) | 1 tn As before, the cognate accusative is used; it would literally be “this people has sinned a great sin.” |
| (0.35) | (Exo 15:7) | 1 sn This expression is cognate with words in v. 1. Here that same greatness or majesty is extolled as in abundance. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 50:20) | 2 tn Heb “God devised it for good in order to do, like this day, to preserve alive a great nation.” |
| (0.35) | (Gen 29:20) | 3 tn Heb “because of his love for her.” The words “was so great” are supplied for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 26:13) | 2 tn Heb “and he went, going and becoming great.” The construction stresses that his growth in possessions and power continued steadily. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 20:9) | 1 tn Heb “How did I sin against you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin?” The expression “great sin” refers to adultery. For discussion of the cultural background of the passage, see J. J. Rabinowitz, “The Great Sin in Ancient Egyptian Marriage Contracts,” JNES 18 (1959): 73, and W. L. Moran, “The Scandal of the ‘Great Sin’ at Ugarit,” JNES 18 (1959): 280-81. |
