Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Gen 16:16) | 2 tn Heb “the son of eighty-six years.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 17:1) | 1 tn Heb “the son of ninety-nine years.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 15:2) | 4 tn Heb “the son of the acquisition of my house.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 9:8) | 1 tn Heb “to Noah and to his sons with him, saying.” |
| (0.49) | (Luk 15:30) | 1 sn Note the younger son is not “my brother” but this son of yours (an expression with a distinctly pejorative nuance). |
| (0.49) | (Pro 15:11) | 3 tn Heb “the hearts of the sons of man,” although here “sons of man” simply means “men” or “human beings.” |
| (0.49) | (2Ch 34:22) | 2 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.” |
| (0.49) | (2Ki 16:7) | 1 tn Heb “son.” Both terms (“servant” and “son”) reflect Ahaz’s subordinate position as Tiglath-Pileser’s subject. |
| (0.49) | (Jos 21:10) | 1 tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Aaron, from the Kohathite clans, from the sons of Levi.” |
| (0.49) | (Jos 18:11) | 2 tn Heb “and the territory of their allotment went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.” |
| (0.49) | (Num 16:1) | 2 tc The MT reading is plural (“the sons of Reuben”); the Smr and LXX have the singular (“the son of Reuben”). |
| (0.46) | (Lam 3:13) | 2 tn Heb “sons of his quiver.” This idiom refers to arrows (BDB 121 s.v. בֵּן 6). The term “son” (בֵּן, ben) is often used idiomatically with a following genitive, e.g., “son of flame” = sparks (Job 5:7), “son of a constellation” = stars (Job 38:22), “son of a bow” = arrows (Job 41:2), “son of a quiver” = arrows (Lam 3:13), and “son of threshing-floor” = corn (Isa 21:10). |
| (0.45) | (1Sa 16:10) | 1 tn Heb “caused seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.” This could be taken as referring to seven sons in addition to the three mentioned before this, but 1 Sam 17:12 says Jesse had eight sons, not eleven. 1 Chr 2:13-15 lists only seven sons, including David. However, 1 Chr 27:18 mentions an additional son, named Elihu. |
| (0.43) | (Eph 2:2) | 8 sn Sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” However, it also contains a subtle allusion to vv. 4-10: Some of those sons of disobedience have become sons of God. |
| (0.43) | (Mat 17:25) | 2 sn The phrase their sons may mean “their citizens,” but the term “sons” has been retained here in order to preserve the implicit comparison between the Father and his Son, Jesus. |
| (0.43) | (Ecc 4:8) | 2 tn Heb “son nor brother.” The terms “son” and “brother” are examples of synecdoche of specific (species) for the general (genus). The term “son” is put for offspring, and “brother” for siblings (e.g., Prov 10:1). |
| (0.43) | (1Ch 28:5) | 1 tn Heb “from all my sons, for many sons the Lord has given to me, he chose Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.” |
| (0.43) | (1Ch 6:65) | 1 tn Heb “and they gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin these cities, which they called them by names.” |
| (0.43) | (1Ch 6:26) | 1 tc The consonantal Hebrew text (Kethib) has, “Elkanah, his son, Elkanah.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah.” The text probably originally read simply, “Elkanah his son.” |
| (0.43) | (2Sa 15:27) | 2 tn Heb “And Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, two of your sons, with you.” The pronominal suffix on the last word is plural, referring to Zadok and Abiathar. |
