Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Luk 14:26) | 2 tn Grk “his own soul,” but ψυχή (psuchē) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 12:20) | 1 tn Grk “your soul,” but ψυχή (psuchē) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 1:18) | 1 sn The expression followed him pictures discipleship, which means that to learn from Jesus is to follow him as the guiding priority of one’s life. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 16:25) | 1 tn Grk “soul” (throughout vv. 25-26). See the discussion of this Greek term in the note on “life” in Matt 10:39. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 4:20) | 2 sn The expression followed him pictures discipleship, which means that to learn from Jesus is to follow him as the guiding priority of one’s life. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 51:50) | 3 tn Heb “let Jerusalem go up upon your heart.” The “heart” is often viewed as the seat of one’s mental faculties and thought life. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 38:20) | 2 tn Heb “your life [or you yourself] will live.” Cf. v. 17 and the translator’s note there for the idiom. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 17:6) | 3 tn A מִדְבָּר (midbar, “wilderness”) receives less than twelve inches of rain per year and therefore cannot support trees and has little plant life. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 2:13) | 1 tn It is difficult to decide whether to translate “fresh, running water” which the Hebrew term for “living water” often refers to (e.g., Gen 26:19; Lev 14:5), or “life-giving water” which the idiom “fountain of life” as source of life and vitality often refers to (e.g., Ps 36:9; Prov 13:14; 14:27). The contrast with cisterns, which collected and held rain water, suggests “fresh, running water,” but the reality underlying the metaphor contrasts the Lord, the source of life, health, and vitality, with useless idols that cannot do anything. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 11:7) | 2 tn The Hebrew term מָתוֹק (matoq, “sweet”) is often used elsewhere in reference to honey. The point is that life is sweet and should be savored like honey. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 10:3) | 3 sn A fool’s lack of wisdom is obvious to everyone, even when he is engaged in the simple, ordinary actions of life. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 8:15) | 1 tn Heb “the enjoyment.” The phrase “of life” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 7:23) | 1 tn The cohortative אֶחְכָּמָה (ʾekhkamah, from חָכַם, khakham, “to be wise”) emphasizes the resolve (determination) of Qoheleth to become wise enough to understand the perplexities of life. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 5:17) | 1 tn Heb “all his days.” The phrase “of his life” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 28:17) | 2 sn The text has “the blood of a life”; blood will be the metonymy of effect for the murder, the shedding of blood. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 28:7) | 3 sn The companion of gluttons shames his father and his family because such a life style as he now embraces is both unruly and antisocial. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 22:7) | 1 sn The proverb is making an observation on life. The synonymous parallelism matches “rule over” with “servant” to show how poverty makes people dependent on, or obligated to, others. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 16:22) | 3 tn Heb “fountain of life.” The point of the metaphor is that like a fountain this wisdom will be a constant provision for living in this world. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 15:5) | 1 tn Heb “is prudent” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NCV, NLT “is wise.” Anyone who accepts correction or rebuke will become prudent in life. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 14:25) | 2 tn The noun נְפָשׁוֹת (nefashot) often means “souls,” but here “lives”—it functions as a metonymy for life (BDB 659 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 3.c). |
