Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Gen 27:12) | 1 tn Heb “Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes like a mocker.” The Hebrew expression “I will be in his eyes like” means “I would appear to him as.” |
| (0.35) | (Act 9:8) | 1 tn Grk “his eyes being open,” a genitive absolute construction that has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle. |
| (0.35) | (Joh 4:35) | 2 tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here. |
| (0.35) | (Luk 22:33) | 2 sn The confidence Peter has in private (Lord, I am ready…) will wilt under the pressure of the public eye. |
| (0.35) | (Mar 8:25) | 3 tn Or “he looked intently”; or “he stared with eyes wide open” (BDAG 226 s.v. διαβλέπω 1). |
| (0.35) | (Dan 7:20) | 2 tc The conjunction in the MT before “eyes” is odd. The ancient versions do not seem to presuppose it. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 20:24) | 2 tn Or “they worshiped” (NCV, TEV, CEV); Heb “their eyes were on” or “were after” (cf. v. 16). |
| (0.35) | (Jer 20:4) | 2 tn Heb “And they will fall by the sword of their enemies and [with] your eyes seeing [it].” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 5:21) | 1 tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see; they have ears but they do not hear.” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 5:3) | 1 tn Heb “O Lord, are your eyes not to faithfulness?” The question is rhetorical and expects a positive answer. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 44:18) | 1 tn Heb “for their eyes are smeared over so they cannot see, so their heart cannot be wise.” |
| (0.35) | (Pro 23:31) | 1 tn Heb “its eye gives.” With CEV’s “bubbling up in the glass” one might think champagne was in view. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 16:2) | 3 tn Heb “in his eyes.” Physical sight is used figuratively for insight, or one’s intellectual point of view. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 4:21) | 3 sn The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. CEV “think about it all.” |
| (0.35) | (Pro 3:7) | 1 tn Heb “in your own eyes” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.” |
| (0.35) | (Psa 101:5) | 1 tn Heb “[one who has] pride of eyes and wideness [i.e., arrogance] of heart, him I will not endure.” |
| (0.35) | (Psa 79:10) | 1 tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.” |
| (0.35) | (Psa 34:15) | 1 tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.” |
| (0.35) | (Est 2:4) | 2 tn Heb “the matter was good in the eyes of the king.” Cf. TEV “The king thought this was good advice.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 28:1) | 2 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.” |
