Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Luk 3:17) | 2 tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building for housing livestock). |
| (0.30) | (Luk 1:33) | 2 sn The expression house of Jacob refers to Israel. This points to the Messiah’s relationship to the people of Israel. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 11:8) | 3 tn Grk “houses.” Cf. BDAG 698 s.v. οἶκος 1.a.β, “of any large building οἶκος τοῦ βασιλέως the king’s palace.” |
| (0.30) | (Mat 3:12) | 2 tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock). |
| (0.30) | (Zec 12:7) | 2 tn Heb “house,” referring here to the dynastic line. Cf. NLT “the royal line”; CEV “the kingdom.” The same expression is translated “dynasty” in the following verse. |
| (0.30) | (Hag 1:9) | 3 tn Heb “and each of you runs to his own house”; NIV “is busy with”; TEV “is busy working on”; NCV “work hard for.” |
| (0.30) | (Mic 3:2) | 5 sn Micah compares the social injustice perpetrated by the house of Jacob/Israel to cannibalism because it threatens the very lives of the oppressed. |
| (0.30) | (Amo 5:11) | 3 tn Heb “Houses of chiseled stone you built, but you will not live in them. Fine vineyards you planted, but you will not drink their wine.” |
| (0.30) | (Amo 5:5) | 1 sn Ironically, Israel was to seek after the Lord, but not at Bethel (the name Bethel means “the house of God” in Hebrew). |
| (0.30) | (Amo 1:5) | 5 tn Many associate the name “Beth Eden” with Bit Adini, an Aramean state located near the Euphrates River, but it may be a sarcastic epithet meaning “house of pleasure.” |
| (0.30) | (Hos 1:4) | 5 tn Heb “the kingdom of the house of Israel” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV). This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 36:22) | 1 tn Heb “in the autumn house.” Commentators are agreed that this was not a separate building or palace but the winter quarters in the palace. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 33:17) | 1 tn Heb “a man shall not be cut off to David [i.e., belonging to the Davidic line] sitting on the throne of the house of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 21:11) | 2 tn Heb “house” or “household.” It is clear from 22:1-6 that this involved the king, the royal family, and the court officials. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 2:14) | 1 tn Heb “Is Israel a slave? Or is he a house-born slave?” The questions are rhetorical, expecting a negative answer. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 58:7) | 2 tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (merudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד. |
| (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 14:2) | 1 tn Heb “and the house of Israel will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 3:20) | 1 tn Heb “houses of breath.” HALOT 124 s.v. בַּיִת defines them as “scent-bottles”; cf. NAB, NRSV “perfume boxes.” |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 7:4) | 1 sn The expression the house of merrymaking refers to a banquet where those who attend engage in self-indulgent feasting and riotous drinking. |
