Discovery Box| (0.02) | (Jer 37:7) | 2 tn Heb “Take note.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here calls attention to a warning and syntactically sets up the following participle to indicate the near future (“is about to”). |
| (0.02) | (Jer 35:13) | 5 tn Heb “Will you not learn a lesson…?” The rhetorical question here has the force, made explicit in the translation, of an imperative. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 35:2) | 1 tn Heb “the house of the Rechabites.” “House” is used here in terms of “household” or “family” (cf. BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת 5.a, b). |
| (0.02) | (Jer 34:14) | 1 sn Cf. Deut 15:12-18 for the complete statement of this law. Here only the first part of it is cited. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 34:13) | 1 tn Heb “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘…’” The style adopted here has been used to avoid a longer, more complex English sentence. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 33:10) | 1 sn The phrase here is parallel to that in v. 4 and introduces a further amplification of the “great and mysterious things” of v. 3. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 31:25) | 1 tn The verbs here again emphasize that the actions are as good as done (i.e., they are prophetic perfects; cf. GKC 312-13 §106.n). |
| (0.02) | (Jer 31:21) | 1 sn The Lord here invites Israel to stop dilly-dallying and prepare themselves to return because he is prepared to do something new and miraculous. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 30:12) | 1 tn The particle כִּי (ki) here is parallel to the one in v. 5 that introduces the first oracle. See the discussion in the translator’s note there. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 29:26) | 5 tn See the translator’s note on 20:2 for this word, which only occurs here and in 20:2-3. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 28:13) | 1 tn Heb “Hananiah, ‘Thus says the Lord….” The translation uses an indirect quotation here used to eliminate one level of embedded quotation. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 27:6) | 3 sn This statement is rhetorical, emphasizing the totality of Nebuchadnezzar’s dominion. Neither here nor in Dan 2:38 is it to be understood literally. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 25:33) | 1 sn The intent here is to emphasize the large quantity of those who are killed—there will be too many to insure proper mourning rites and proper burial. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 23:18) | 2 tn The form here is a jussive with a vav of subordination introducing a purpose after a question (cf. GKC 322 §109.f). |
| (0.02) | (Jer 22:1) | 2 sn The allusion here is to going down from the temple to the palace, which was on a lower eminence. See 36:12 in its context. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 19:5) | 1 tn The word “here” is not in the text. However, it is implicit from the rest of the context. It is supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 18:6) | 2 tn The words “deals with the clay” are not in the text. They are part of an elliptical comparison and are supplied in the translation here for clarity. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 17:11) | 2 tn The Hebrew text merely says “it.” But the antecedent might be ambiguous in English, so the reference to wealth gained by unjust means is here reiterated for clarity. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 15:9) | 4 sn She has lost her position of honor and the source of her pride. For the concepts here see 1 Sam 2:5. |
| (0.02) | (Jer 14:17) | 3 tn Heb “virgin daughter, my people.” The last noun here is appositional to the first two (genitive of apposition). Hence it is not ‘literally’ “virgin daughter of my people.” |
