Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Jdg 6:24) | 1 tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 4:24) | 3 tn Heb “Jabin king of Canaan.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 1:15) | 2 tn Some translations regard the expressions “springs of water” (גֻּלֹּת מָיִם, gullot mayim) and “springs” (גֻּלֹּת) as place names here (cf. NRSV). |
| (0.30) | (Jos 13:27) | 2 sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 13:6) | 1 tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 641 s.v. מִשְׂרָפוֹת). |
| (0.30) | (Jos 12:3) | 2 sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 11:8) | 2 tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 641 s.v. מִשְׂרָפוֹת). |
| (0.30) | (Jos 10:29) | 1 tn Heb “Libnah.” Repetition of the proper name here would be redundant according to English style, so the pronoun (“it”) has been employed in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 2:1) | 3 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.” |
| (0.30) | (Deu 21:5) | 2 tn Heb “in the name of the Lord.” See note on Deut 10:8. The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 12:11) | 1 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.” |
| (0.30) | (Deu 4:3) | 1 tc The LXX and Syriac read “to Baal Peor,” that is, the god worshiped at that place; see note on the name “Beth Peor” in Deut 3:29. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 3:17) | 3 sn Kinnereth. This is another name for the Sea of Galilee, so called because its shape is that of a harp (the Hebrew term for “harp” is כִּנּוֹר, kinnor). |
| (0.30) | (Deu 2:23) | 3 tn Heb “Caphtor”; the modern name of the island of Crete is used in the translation for clarity (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Deu 2:20) | 2 sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5). |
| (0.30) | (Num 34:11) | 1 sn The word means “harp.” The lake (or sea) of Galilee was so named because it is shaped somewhat like a harp. |
| (0.30) | (Num 24:21) | 1 sn A pun is made on the name Kenite by using the word “your nest” (קִנֶּךָ, qinnekha); the location may be the rocky cliffs overlooking Petra. |
| (0.30) | (Num 21:1) | 3 tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times. |
| (0.30) | (Num 13:16) | 1 sn The difference in the names is slight, a change from “he saves” to “the Lord saves.” The Greek text of the OT used Iesoun for Hebrew Yeshua. |
| (0.30) | (Num 10:10) | 1 tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.” |
