Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Jer 41:12) | 1 tn Heb “the many [or great] waters.” This is generally identified with the pool of Gibeon mentioned in 2 Sam 2:13. |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 32:17) | 3 tn Heb “by your great power and your outstretched arm.” See 21:5; 27:5; and the marginal note on 27:5 for this idiom. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 27:5) | 1 tn Heb “by my great power and my outstretched arm.” Again “arm” is symbolical for “strength.” Compare the similar expression in 21:5. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 57:10) | 1 tn Heb “by the greatness [i.e., “length,” see BDB 914 s.v. רֹב 2] of your way you get tired.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 51:10) | 1 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 44:23) | 5 tn That is, by delivering Israel. Cf. NCV “showed his glory when he saved Israel”; TEV “has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 16:14) | 2 tn Heb “and the splendor of Moab will be disgraced with all the great multitude, and a small little remnant will not be strong.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 12:6) | 2 tn Or “is great” (TEV). However, the context emphasizes his mighty acts of deliverance (cf. NCV), not some general or vague character quality. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 4:1) | 1 sn The seven-to-one ratio emphasizes the great disparity that will exist in the population due to the death of so many men in battle. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 71:18) | 2 tn Heb “until I declare your arm to a generation, to everyone who comes your power.” God’s “arm” here is an anthropomorphism that symbolizes his great strength. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 33:7) | 2 tn Or “watery depths.” The form תְּהוֹמוֹת (tehomot, “watery depths”) is the plural form of תְּהוֹם (tehom, “great deep”; see Gen 1:2). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 19:10) | 2 tn Heb “are sweeter.” God’s law is “sweet’ in the sense that, when obeyed, it brings a great reward (see v. 11b). |
| (0.30) | (Est 7:7) | 1 sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew. |
| (0.30) | (Est 6:3) | 1 tn Heb “honor and greatness.” The expression is a hendiadys (see the note on 5:10 for an explanation of this figure). |
| (0.30) | (Neh 13:21) | 3 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 30:26) | 1 tn Heb “and there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 17:8) | 2 tn Heb “and I will make for you a name like the name of the great men who are in the earth.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 11:9) | 1 tn Heb “and David went, going and becoming great, and the Lord of Heaven’s Armies [traditionally, Lord of hosts] was with him.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 18:3) | 1 tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority. |
