Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Psa 144:13) | 4 tn Heb “in outside places.” Here the term refers to pastures and fields (see Job 5:10; Prov 8:26). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 143:3) | 5 sn Dark regions refers to Sheol, which the psalmist views as a dark place located deep in the ground (see Ps 88:6). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 132:5) | 1 tn The plural form of the noun may indicate degree or quality; David envisions a special dwelling place (see Pss 43:3; 46:4; 84:1). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 115:1) | 1 sn Psalm 115. The psalmist affirms that Israel’s God is superior to pagan idols and urges Israel to place their confidence in him. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 76:2) | 2 tn Heb “and his place of refuge is in Salem, and his lair in Zion.” God may be likened here to a lion (see v. 4). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 68:14) | 2 tn The Hebrew text adds “in it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix may refer back to God’s community/dwelling place (v. 10). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 68:3) | 1 tn By placing the subject first the psalmist highlights the contrast between God’s ecstatic people and his defeated enemies (vv. 1-2). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 55:18) | 1 tn The perfect verbal form is here used rhetorically to indicate that the action is certain to take place (the so-called perfect of certitude). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 36:12) | 2 tn The psalmist uses perfect verbal forms in v. 12 to describe the demise of the wicked as if it has already taken place. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 8:6) | 3 sn Placed everything under their authority. This verse affirms that mankind rules over God’s creation as his vice-regent. See Gen 1:26-30. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 4:7) | 1 tn Heb “you place joy in my heart.” Another option is to understand the perfect verbal form as indicating certitude, “you will make me happier.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 39:28) | 2 tn The word could be taken as the predicate, but because of the conjunction it seems to be adding another description of the place of its nest. |
| (0.30) | (Job 39:14) | 1 tn The meaning may have the connotation of “lays; places,” rather than simply abandoning (see M. Dahood, “The Root ʿzb II in Job,” JBL 78 [1959]: 307f.). |
| (0.30) | (Job 32:19) | 1 tn Heb “in my belly I am like wine that is not opened” (a Niphal imperfect), meaning sealed up with no place to escape. |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:33) | 4 tn The MT has “in my bosom.” This is the only place in the OT where this word is found. But its meaning is well attested from Aramaic. |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:38) | 1 sn Many commentators place vv. 38-40b at the end of v. 34, so that there is no return to these conditional clauses after his final appeal. |
| (0.30) | (Job 28:3) | 2 tn The verse ends with “the stone of darkness and deep darkness.” The genitive would be location, describing the place where the stones are found. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:35) | 1 tn Infinitives absolute are used in this verse in the place of finite verbs. They lend a greater vividness to the description, stressing the basic meaning of the words. |
| (0.30) | (Job 8:21) | 2 sn “Laughter” (and likewise “gladness”) will here be metonymies of effect or adjunct, being put in place of the reason for the joy—restoration. |
| (0.30) | (Job 8:18) | 2 sn The place where the plant once grew will deny ever knowing it. Such is the completeness of the uprooting that there is not a trace left. |
