Discovery Box| (0.49) | (Psa 89:13) | 1 sn The Lord’s arm, hand, and right hand all symbolize his activities, especially his exploits in war. |
| (0.49) | (Psa 68:31) | 3 tn Heb “causes its hands to run,” which must mean “quickly stretches out its hands” (to present tribute). |
| (0.49) | (Psa 18:20) | 4 tn Heb “according to the purity of my hands he repaid to me.” “Hands” suggest activity and behavior. |
| (0.49) | (Job 12:10) | 1 tn The construction with the relative clause includes a resumptive pronoun referring to God: “who in his hand” = “in his hand.” |
| (0.49) | (Neh 11:1) | 2 tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion. |
| (0.49) | (Neh 10:31) | 2 tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements. |
| (0.49) | (1Ch 25:2) | 1 tn Heb “the sons of Asaph [were] upon the hand of Asaph, the one prophesying upon the hands of the king.” |
| (0.49) | (2Sa 22:21) | 4 tn Heb “according to the purity of my hands he repaid to me.” Hands suggest activity and behavior. |
| (0.49) | (2Sa 3:34) | 1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.” |
| (0.45) | (Pro 12:24) | 2 tn Heb “the hand of the diligent.” The term “hand” is a synecdoche of part (= hand) for the whole (= person): diligent person. The hand is emphasized because it is the instrument of physical labor; it signifies the actions and the industry of a diligent person—what his hand does. |
| (0.45) | (Exo 14:31) | 2 tn Heb “the great hand,” with “hand” being a metonymy for work or power. The word play using “hand” contrasts the Lord’s hand/power at work on behalf of the Israelites with the hand/power of Egypt that would have killed them. |
| (0.43) | (Act 13:3) | 3 sn The placing of hands on Barnabas and Saul (traditionally known as “the laying on of hands”) refers to an act picturing the commission of God and the church for the task at hand. |
| (0.43) | (Eze 29:7) | 1 tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) implies בְכַפְּךָ (vekappeka, “by your hand”) but the marginal reading (Qere) has simply בַכַּף (vakkaf, “by the hand”). The LXX reads: “with their hand,” implying בְכַפָּם (vekappam). |
| (0.43) | (Lam 2:3) | 4 tn Heb “he caused his right hand to turn back.” The implication in such contexts is that the Lord’s right hand protects his city. This image of the right hand is consciously reversed in 2:4. |
| (0.43) | (Jer 38:23) | 2 tn Heb “you yourself will not escape from their hand but will be seized by [caught in] the hand of the king of Babylon.” Neither use of “hand” is natural to the English idiom. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 45:12) | 2 tn Heb “I, even my hands”; NASB “I stretched out…with My hands”; NRSV “it was my hands that stretched out.” The same construction occurs at the beginning of v. 13. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 81:14) | 1 tn Heb “turn my hand against.” The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack” (see Isa 1:25; Ezek 38:12; Amos 1:8; Zech 13:7). |
| (0.43) | (Exo 13:14) | 5 tn The expression is “with strength of hand,” making “hand” the genitive of specification. In translation “strength” becomes the modifier because “hand” specifies where the strength was. But of course the whole expression is anthropomorphic for the power of God. |
| (0.43) | (Gen 9:2) | 2 tn Heb “into your hand are given.” The “hand” signifies power. To say the animals have been given into the hands of humans means humans have been given authority over them. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 10:4) | 3 tn Heb “but the hand of the diligent” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). The genitive noun חָרוּצִים (kharutsim, “diligence”) functions as an attributive adjective: “a diligent hand.” The noun חָרוּצִים (kharutsim) uses the plural form because the plural is often used for abstract moral qualities. The term יָד (yad, “hand”) is a synecdoche of part (= “hand”) for the whole person (= “the one who works with his hands”). The hand is emphasized because it is the instrument of physical labor. |
