Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Psa 69:30) | 1 tn Heb “I will praise the name of God with a song.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 66:2) | 1 tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 34:6) | 1 tn The pronoun refers back to “this oppressed man,” namely, the psalmist. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 29:6) | 1 sn Sirion is another name for Mount Hermon (Deut 3:9). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 18:49) | 2 tn Heb “to your name.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case “Lord,” the primary name of Israel’s covenant God which suggests his active presence with his people (see Exod 3:12-15). |
| (0.40) | (Psa 16:4) | 3 tn Heb “and I will not lift up their names upon my lips.” The expression “lift up the name” probably refers here to swearing an oath in the name of deity (see Exod 20:7; Deut 5:11). If so, the third masculine plural suffix on “names” likely refers to the pagan gods, not the people/leaders. See the preceding note. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 8:9) | 3 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 8:1) | 5 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation. |
| (0.40) | (Psa 7:1) | 4 sn Apparently this individual named Cush was one of David’s enemies. |
| (0.40) | (Job 42:14) | 3 sn The Hebrew name Keren-Happuch means “horn of eye-paint.” |
| (0.40) | (Job 41:4) | 2 tn The imperfect verb serves to express what the covenant pact would cover, namely, “that you take.” |
| (0.40) | (Est 2:21) | 2 tc The LXX does not include the names “Bigthan and Teresh” here. |
| (0.40) | (Est 2:5) | 1 sn Mordecai is a pagan name that reflects the name of the Babylonian deity Marduk. Probably many Jews of the period had two names, one for secular use and the other for use especially within the Jewish community. Mordecai’s Jewish name is not recorded in the biblical text. |
| (0.40) | (Neh 11:35) | 2 tn Heb “Ge-harashim,” which could be left untranslated as a place name. |
| (0.40) | (Neh 1:1) | 2 sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, nekhemyah) means “the Lord comforts.” |
| (0.40) | (Ezr 1:8) | 3 sn A Persian name meaning “gift of Mithras.” See HALOT 656 s.v. מִתְרְדָת. |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 22:11) | 1 sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2). |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 14:11) | 3 tn Heb “and in your name we have come against this multitude.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 10:18) | 1 sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.” |
| (0.40) | (2Ch 7:16) | 1 tn Heb “for my name to be there perpetually [or perhaps, “forever”].” |
