Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Mar 5:29) | 1 sn The woman was most likely suffering from a vaginal or uterine hemorrhage, in which case her bleeding would make her ritually unclean. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 3:3) | 1 sn Most likely synagogues were arranged with benches along the walls and open space in the center for seating on the floor. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 27:60) | 1 tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25). |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:39) | 1 sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:27) | 1 sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out. |
| (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 18:17) | 5 sn To treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector means not to associate with such a person. See the note on tax collectors in 5:46. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 13:20) | 2 tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 7:21) | 1 sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession like this one without corresponding action means little. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 6:30) | 2 sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass. |
| (0.30) | (Zec 12:8) | 1 sn The statement the dynasty of David will be like God is hyperbole to show the remarkable enhancements that will accompany the inauguration of the millennial age. |
| (0.30) | (Hag 2:20) | 1 sn This Hebrew expression is like the one in 2:10 and is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:4) | 2 tn There is a sound play here in the Hebrew text: the name Gaza (עַזָּה, ’azzah) sounds like the word translated “deserted” (עֲזוּבָה, ’azuvah). |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:4) | 5 tn Heb “uprooted.” There is a sound play here in the Hebrew text: the name “Ekron” (עֶקְרוֹן, ’eqron) sounds like the word translated “uprooted” (תֵּעָקֵר, te’aqer). |
| (0.30) | (Hab 3:3) | 4 sn The precise location of Mount Paran is unknown, but like Teman it was located to the southeast of Israel. Habakkuk saw God marching from the direction of Sinai. |
| (0.30) | (Hab 1:4) | 1 tn Heb “the law is numb,” i.e., like a hand that has “fallen asleep” (see Ps 77:2). Cf. NAB “is benumbed”; NIV “is paralyzed.” |
| (0.30) | (Nah 3:18) | 4 tn The words “like sheep” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added for clarification of the imagery. The previous line compares Assyria’s leaders to shepherds. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 7:19) | 1 tn The interrogative force of the previous verse is continued here, part of a list of attributes reinforcing the question, “Who is like God?” |
| (0.30) | (Mic 3:3) | 2 tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kishʾer, “like flesh”). |
| (0.30) | (Mic 2:3) | 2 tn Heb “from which you will not remove your neck.” The words “It will be like a yoke” are supplied in the translation for clarification. |
