Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Mar 15:35) | 1 sn Perhaps the crowd thought Jesus was calling for Elijah because the exclamation “my God, my God” (i.e., in Aramaic, Eloi, Eloi) sounds like the name Elijah. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 3:22) | 3 sn Beelzebul is another name for Satan. So some people, particularly here the experts in the law, recognized Jesus’ work as supernatural, but called it diabolical. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 1:25) | 2 tn Grk “and he called his name Jesus.” The coordinate clause has been translated as a relative clause in English for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 1:12) | 2 sn The Greek text and the KJV read Salathiel. Most modern English translations use the OT form of the name (cf. Ezra 3:2). |
| (0.30) | (Zec 11:7) | 4 sn The name of the first staff, pleasantness, refers to the rest and peace of the covenant between the Lord and his people (cf. v. 10). |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:4) | 2 tn There is a sound play here in the Hebrew text: the name Gaza (עַזָּה, ’azzah) sounds like the word translated “deserted” (עֲזוּבָה, ’azuvah). |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:4) | 5 tn Heb “uprooted.” There is a sound play here in the Hebrew text: the name “Ekron” (עֶקְרוֹן, ’eqron) sounds like the word translated “uprooted” (תֵּעָקֵר, te’aqer). |
| (0.30) | (Zep 1:11) | 1 tn Heb “in the Mortar.” The Hebrew term מַכְתֵּשׁ (makhtesh, “mortar”) is apparently here the name of a low-lying area where economic activity took place. |
| (0.30) | (Nah 3:9) | 5 tn The noun עֶזְרָה (ʿezrah) means “help, assistance, strength” (HALOT 812, s.v.). Nations named as help would either be allies or vassals responsible to give support. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 1:10) | 1 tn Heb “Tell it not in Gath.” The Hebrew word for “tell” (נָגַד, nagad) sounds like the name of the city, Gath (גַּת, gat). |
| (0.30) | (Oba 1:6) | 1 tn Heb “Esau.” The name Esau here is a synecdoche of part for whole referring to the Edomites. Cf. “Jacob” in v. 10, where the meaning is “Israelites.” |
| (0.30) | (Amo 9:12) | 3 tn Heb “nations over whom my name is proclaimed.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership, sometimes as a result of conquest. See 2 Sam 12:28. |
| (0.30) | (Amo 8:12) | 2 tn That is, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Dead Sea in the east—namely, across the whole land. |
| (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 1:1) | 3 sn Joash is a variation of the name Jehoash. Some English versions use “Jehoash” here (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Hos 1:2) | 4 tn Heb “to Hosea.” The proper name is replaced by the pronoun here to avoid redundancy in English (cf. NIV, NCV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Dan 9:19) | 1 tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v. 18. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 9:2) | 4 sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters that constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears 8 times in this chapter and nowhere else in the book of Daniel. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 3:2) | 2 tn Aram “Nebuchadnezzar the king.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the relative pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
