Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Jdg 14:12) | 1 tn Heb “If you really can tell it to me [during] the seven days of the feast and you find [its answer].” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 6:32) | 1 tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight” or “Let Baal defend himself.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 6:15) | 2 tn Heb “and they went around the city according to this manner seven times, only on that day they went around the city seven times.” |
| (0.30) | (Deu 33:28) | 1 tn Heb “all alone.” The idea is that such vital resources as water will some day no longer need protection because God will provide security. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 28:66) | 1 tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 16:8) | 1 tn The words “on that day” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for clarification (cf. TEV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Deu 1:46) | 1 tn Heb “like the days which you lived.” This refers to the rest of the forty-year period in the desert before Israel arrived in Moab. |
| (0.30) | (Num 9:16) | 1 tc The MT lacks the words “by day,” but a number of ancient versions have this reading (e.g., Greek, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., Latin Vulgate). |
| (0.30) | (Lev 13:14) | 1 tn Heb “and in the day of there appears in it living flesh.” Some English versions render this as “open sores” (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 20:9) | 1 tn The text has simply “six days,” but this is an adverbial accusative of time, answering how long they were to work (GKC 374 §118.k). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:7) | 3 tn Heb “as yesterday and three days ago” or “as yesterday and before that.” This is idiomatic for “as previously” or “as in the past.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 4:10) | 5 tn Heb “also from yesterday also from three days ago” or “neither since yesterday nor since before that” is idiomatic for “previously” or “in the past.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 31:40) | 2 tn Heb “frost, ice,” though when contrasted with the חֹרֶב (khorev, “drought, parching heat”) of the day, “piercing cold” is more appropriate as a contrast. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 4:3) | 1 tn Heb “And it happened at the end of days.” The clause indicates the passing of a set period of time leading up to offering sacrifices. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 1:14) | 3 sn Let them be for signs. The point is that the sun and the moon were important to fix the days for the seasonal celebrations for the worshiping community. |
| (0.28) | (Act 1:12) | 4 sn The phrase a Sabbath day’s journey refers to the distance the rabbis permitted a person to travel on the Sabbath without breaking the Sabbath, specified in tractate Sotah 5:3 of the Mishnah as 2,000 cubits (a cubit was about 18 inches). In this case the distance was about half a mile (1 km). |
| (0.28) | (Joh 20:1) | 1 sn The first day of the week would be early Sunday morning. The Sabbath (and in this year the Passover) would have lasted from 6 p.m. Friday until 6 p.m. Saturday. Sunday would thus mark the first day of the following week. |
| (0.28) | (Luk 20:24) | 1 sn A denarius was a silver coin worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. The fact that the leaders had such a coin showed that they already operated in the economic world of Rome. The denarius would have had a picture of Tiberius Caesar, the Roman emperor, on it. |
| (0.28) | (Luk 11:30) | 3 tc Only the Western ms D and a few Itala mss add here a long reference to Jonah being in the belly of the fish for three days and nights and the Son of Man being three days in the earth, apparently harmonizing the text to the parallel in Matt 12:40. |
| (0.28) | (Luk 4:2) | 1 tn Grk “in the desert, for forty days being tempted.” The participle πειραζόμενος (peirazomenos) has been translated as an adverbial clause in English to avoid a run-on sentence with a second “and.” Here the present participle suggests a period of forty days of testing. Three samples of the end of the testing are given in the following verses. |
