Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Lam 1:10) | 5 tn Heb “her sanctuary.” The term מִקְדָּשָׁהּ (miqdashah, “her sanctuary”) refers to the temple. Anthropomorphically, translating as “her sacred place” would also allow for the rape imagery. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 51:49) | 1 tn The infinitive construct is used here to indicate what is about to take place. See IBHS 610 §36.2.3g. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 37:10) | 1 tn Heb “all the army of the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonian” in place of Chaldean, see the study note on 21:4. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 30:1) | 1 tn Compare the headings at 7:1; 11:1; 18:1; 21:1, as well as the translator’s note at those places. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 29:24) | 2 tn It is unclear whether this is a family name or a place name. The word occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 19:6) | 2 tn Heb “it will no longer be called to this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom but the Valley of Slaughter.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 3:9) | 1 tc The translation reads the form as a causative (Hiphil, תַּהֲנֵף, tahanef) with some of the versions in place of the simple stative (Qal, תֶּחֱנַף, tekhenaf) in the MT. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 49:19) | 1 tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 38:20) | 3 sn Note that vv. 21-22 have been placed between vv. 6-7, where they logically belong. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 32:13) | 2 tn Heb “indeed, over all the houses of joy.” It is not certain if this refers to individual homes or to places where parties and celebrations were held. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 14:15) | 2 tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 5:5) | 1 tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (baʿar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 3:1) | 3 tn Heb “support and support.” The masculine and feminine forms of the noun are placed side-by-side to emphasize completeness. See GKC 394 §122.v. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 31:25) | 5 tn Heb “day.” This word is a metonymy of subject meaning any events that take place on the day or in the time to come. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 30:28) | 1 sn The point of this saying is that a weak creature like a lizard, that is so easily caught, cannot be prevented from getting into the most significant places. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 24:14) | 1 tn D. W. Thomas argues for a meaning of “seek” in place of “know” (“Notes on Some Passages in the Book of Proverbs,” JTS 38 [1937]: 400-403). |
| (0.30) | (Pro 21:22) | 2 tn Heb “the strength of its confidence” or “its trusted strength.” The word “strength” may refer by metonymy to the place of strength, i.e., “the stronghold.” |
| (0.30) | (Pro 18:11) | 3 tn Heb “city of his strength”; NIV “fortified city.” This term refers to their place of refuge, what they look to for security and protection in time of trouble. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 11:8) | 2 tn Heb “The wicked came [= arrived] in his place,” meaning the place of trouble that the righteous was delivered from. Cf. NASB “the wicked takes his place”; NRSV “the wicked get into it instead”; NIV “it comes on the wicked instead.” The verb is a preterite with vav consecutive and should be past time. On the one hand the sage has seen this take place and the student should expect it to happen again. From another angle, the proverb says that the trouble, which a righteous person appears to be headed for, could actually be prepared for the wicked. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 144:14) | 2 tn Heb “there [will be] no breach, and there [will be] no going out, and there [will be] no crying out in our broad places.” |
