Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Exo 9:4) | 1 tn The verb פָּלָה (palah) in Hiphil means “to set apart, make separate, make distinct.” See also Exod 8:22 (18 HT); 11:7; 33:16. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 8:14) | 2 tn The word “heaps” is repeated: חֳמָרִם הֳמָרִם (khomarim khomarim). The repetition serves to intensify the idea to the highest degree—“countless heaps” (see GKC 396 §123.e). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 7:11) | 1 sn For information on this Egyptian material, see D. B. Redford, A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph (VTSup), 203-4. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 6:3) | 1 tn The preposition bet (ב) in this construction should be classified as a bet essentiae, a bet of essence (see also GKC 379 §119.i). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:9) | 2 sn For a discussion of this whole section, see K. A. Kitchen, “From the Brickfields of Egypt,” TynBul 27 (1976): 137-47. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 4:18) | 5 tn This verb is parallel to the preceding cohortative and so also expresses purpose: “let me go that I may return…and that I may see.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:26) | 1 tn On the term translated “statute” see P. Victor, “A Note on Hoq in the Old Testament,” VT 16 (1966): 358-61. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 46:13) | 2 tc The MT reads יוֹב (yov, “Job,”) but Smr, supported by the LXX, reads יָשׁוּב (yashuv, “Jashub”) (see Num 26:24; 1 Chr 7:1). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 45:12) | 1 tn Heb “And, look, your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that my mouth is the one speaking to you.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 44:29) | 3 tn Heb “evil/calamity.” The term is different than the one used in the otherwise identical statement recorded in v. 31 (see also 42:38). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:25) | 1 tn Heb “and they filled.” The clause appears to be elliptical; one expects “Joseph gave orders to fill…and they filled.” See GKC 386 §120.f. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:14) | 4 tn Heb “He approached me to lie down with me.” Both expressions can be a euphemism for sexual relations. See the note at 2 Sam 12:24. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:12) | 3 sn For discussion of this episode, see A. M. Honeyman, “The Occasion of Joseph’s Temptation,” VT 2 (1952): 85-87. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 36:26) | 1 tn Heb “Dishan,” but this must be either a scribal error or variant spelling, since “Dishan” is mentioned in v. 28 (see also v. 21). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:15) | 2 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:10) | 1 sn The name Israel means “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). See Gen 32:28. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:6) | 1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:4) | 3 sn Jacob buried them. On the burial of the gods, see E. Nielson, “The Burial of the Foreign Gods,” ST 8 (1954/55): 102-22. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:3) | 4 tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:1) | 2 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3. |
