Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Col 4:15) | 3 tn Grk “the church in her house.” The meaning is that Paul sends greetings to the church that meets at Nympha’s house. |
| (0.30) | (Eph 5:26) | 1 tn The direct object “her” is implied, but not found in the Greek text. It has been supplied in the English translation to clarify the sense of the passage. |
| (0.30) | (1Co 7:16) | 1 tn Grk “will save your husband?” The meaning is obviously that the wife would be the human agent in leading her husband to salvation. |
| (0.30) | (Act 19:35) | 3 tn See BDAG 670 s.v. νεωκόρος. The city is described as the “warden” or “guardian” of the goddess and her temple. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 11:31) | 3 tn Grk “Mary”; the proper name (Mary) has been replaced with the pronoun (her) in keeping with conventional English style, to avoid repetition. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 13:34) | 3 sn How often I have longed to gather your children. Jesus, like a lamenting prophet, speaks for God here, who longed to care tenderly for Israel and protect her. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 11:27) | 2 tn Grk “lifted up her voice and said.” This idiom is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “spoke out.” |
| (0.30) | (Luk 10:39) | 3 sn The description of Mary sitting at the Lord’s feet and listening to him makes her sound like a disciple (compare Luke 8:35). |
| (0.30) | (Luk 1:45) | 3 tn That is, “what was said to her (by the angel) at the Lord’s command” (BDAG 756 s.v. παρά A.2). |
| (0.30) | (Luk 1:38) | 5 sn The remark according to your word is a sign of Mary’s total submission to God’s will, a response that makes her exemplary. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 1:28) | 3 tn Grk “coming to her, he said.” The participle εἰσελθών (eiselthōn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 23:37) | 3 sn How often I have longed to gather your children. Jesus, like a lamenting prophet, speaks for God here, who longed to care tenderly for Israel and protect her. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 15:22) | 2 tn Grk The participle ἐξελθοῦσα (exelthousa) is here translated as a finite verb. The emphasis is upon her crying out to Jesus. |
| (0.30) | (Zep 3:7) | 5 tn Heb “all which I have punished her.” The precise meaning of this statement and its relationship to what precedes are unclear. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 7:11) | 1 sn Personified Jerusalem declares her confidence in vv. 8-10; in this verse she is assured that she will indeed be vindicated. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 5:3) | 5 sn Gives birth. The point of the figurative language is that Jerusalem finally finds relief from her suffering. See 4:10. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 5:6) | 3 tc The MT reads בִּפְתָחֶיהָ (biftakheha) “in her gates,” but the text should be emended to בַּפְּתִיחָה (bappetikhah) “with a drawn sword.” |
| (0.30) | (Mic 1:6) | 3 tn Heb “I will uncover her foundations.” The term “foundations” refers to the lower courses of the stones of the city’s outer fortification walls. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 2:4) | 1 tn Heb “her sons.” English versions have long translated this as “children,” however; cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, and NLT. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 2:4) | 1 sn The word order is rhetorical: the accusative וְאֶת־בָּנֶיהָ (veʾet baneha, “her sons”) is moved forward for emphasis. |
