Discovery Box| (0.27) | (Job 7:17) | 1 tn The verse is a rhetorical question; it is intended to mean that man is too little for God to be making so much over him in all this. |
| (0.27) | (Job 1:1) | 3 tn The Hebrew construction is literally “a man was,” using אִישׁ הָיָה (ʾish hayah) rather than a preterite first. This simply begins the narrative. |
| (0.27) | (Est 7:7) | 1 sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew. |
| (0.27) | (Ezr 8:18) | 1 tn Heb “and Sherebiah.” The words “this man was” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.27) | (1Ch 18:10) | 3 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.” |
| (0.27) | (2Ki 13:14) | 4 sn By comparing Elisha to a one-man army, the king emphasizes the power of the prophetic word. See the note at 2:12. |
| (0.27) | (2Ki 12:4) | 4 tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord.” |
| (0.27) | (2Ki 10:24) | 1 tn Heb “The man who escapes from the men whom I am bringing into your hands, [it will be] his life in place of his life.” |
| (0.27) | (2Ki 7:17) | 3 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.” |
| (0.27) | (2Ki 4:25) | 2 tn Heb “the man of God.” The phrase has been replaced by the relative pronoun “he” in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.27) | (2Sa 23:21) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading אִישׁ (ʾish, “man”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher, “who”). |
| (0.27) | (2Sa 22:26) | 4 tc Heb “a warrior of innocence.” The parallel text in Ps 18:25 reads, probably correctly, גֶּבֶר (gever, “man”) instead of גִּבּוֹר (gibbor, “warrior”). |
| (0.27) | (2Sa 8:10) | 4 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.” |
| (0.27) | (1Sa 24:17) | 1 tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.” |
| (0.27) | (1Sa 21:2) | 1 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.” |
| (0.27) | (Rut 4:7) | 2 tn Heb “a man removed his sandal and gave [it] to his companion”; NASB “gave it to another”; NIV, NRSV, CEV “to the other.” |
| (0.27) | (Rut 3:14) | 2 tn Heb “and she arose before a man could recognize his companion”; NRSV “before one person could recognize another”; CEV “before daylight.” |
| (0.27) | (Rut 2:1) | 3 tn Heb “and [there was] to Naomi a relative, to her husband, a man mighty in substance, from the clan of Elimelech, and his name [was] Boaz.” |
| (0.27) | (Jdg 21:25) | 1 sn Each man did what he considered to be right. The Book of Judges closes with this note, which summarizes the situation of the Israelite tribes during this period. |
| (0.27) | (Jdg 19:26) | 2 tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.” |
