Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Exo 32:12) | 1 tn The question is rhetorical; it really forms an affirmation that is used here as a reason for the request (see GKC 474 §150.e). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 32:1) | 6 tn The plural translation is required here (although the form itself could be singular in meaning) because the verb that follows in the relative clause is a plural verb. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 30:20) | 1 tn The form is an infinitive construct with the temporal preposition ב (bet), and a suffixed subjective genitive: “in their going in,” or, whenever they enter. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 27:8) | 1 tn The verb is used impersonally; it reads “just as he showed you.” This form then can be made a passive in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 26:9) | 1 sn The text seems to describe this part as being in front of the tabernacle, hanging down to form a valence at the entrance (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 284). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 18:22) | 1 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive, making it equivalent to the imperfect of instruction in the preceding verse. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 18:23) | 1 tn The form is a Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the same nuance as the preceding imperfect in the conditional clause. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 16:3) | 2 tn The form is a Qal infinitive construct used in a temporal clause, and the verb “when we ate” has the same structure. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:16) | 3 tn The adjective is in construct form and governs the noun “arm” (“arm” being the anthropomorphic expression for what God did). See GKC 428 §132.c. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:5) | 1 tn The verb form is יְכַסְיֻמוּ (yekhaseyumu) is the Piel preterite. Normally a vav (ו) consecutive is used with the preterite, but in some ancient poems the form without the vav appears, as is the case frequently in this poem. That such an archaic form is used should come as no surprise because the word also uses the yod (י) of the root (GKC 214 §75.dd), and the archaic suffix form (GKC 258 §91.l). These all indicate the antiquity of the poem. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 15:1) | 4 tn The form is the singular cohortative, expressing the resolution of Moses to sing the song of praise (“I will” being stronger than “I shall”). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 13:10) | 1 tn The form is a perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive, functioning as the equivalent of an imperfect of instruction or injunction. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 13:8) | 1 tn The form is the Hiphil perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence forward: “and you will declare to your son.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 8:27) | 3 tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence: we must go…and then [must] sacrifice.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 8:8) | 3 tn This form is the jussive with a sequential vav that provides the purpose of the prayer: pray…that he may turn away the frogs. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 6:12) | 3 tn The final clause begins with a disjunctive vav (ו), a vav on a nonverb form—here a pronoun. It introduces a circumstantial causal clause. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:17) | 2 tn Or “loafers.” The form נִרְפִּים (nirpim) is derived from the verb רָפָה (rafah), meaning “to be weak, to let oneself go.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 4:18) | 2 tn The two verbs form a verbal hendiadys, the second verb becoming adverbial in the translation: “and he went and he returned” becomes “and he went back.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 3:18) | 4 tn The form used here is the cohortative of הָלַךְ (halakh). It could be a resolve, but more likely before Pharaoh it is a request. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 1:11) | 4 tn The form is a preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive, וַיִּבֶן (vayyiven). The sequence expressed in this context includes the idea of result. |
