Discovery Box| (0.57) | (Exo 15:25) | 2 tn Or “a [piece of] wood” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV); NLT “a branch.” |
| (0.57) | (Exo 12:14) | 2 tn The expression “will be for a memorial” means “will become a memorial.” |
| (0.57) | (Gen 50:15) | 1 tn The imperfect tense could be a simple future; it could also have a desiderative nuance. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 37:16) | 1 tn The imperative in this sentence has more of the nuance of a request than a command. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 32:11) | 1 tn The imperative has the force of a prayer here, not a command. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 31:54) | 1 tn The construction is a cognate accusative with the verb, expressing a specific sacrifice. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 21:16) | 1 sn A bowshot would be a distance of about 100 yards (90 meters). |
| (0.57) | (Gen 18:9) | 1 tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) often accompanies a gesture of pointing or a focused gaze. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 14:18) | 2 tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause significantly identifies Melchizedek as a priest as well as a king. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 9:20) | 1 sn The epithet a man of the soil indicates that Noah was a farmer. |
| (0.57) | (Gen 4:23) | 1 tn The Hebrew term יֶלֶד (yeled) probably refers to a youthful warrior here, not a child. |
| (0.56) | (Mat 20:2) | 1 sn The standard wage was a denarius a day. The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer in Palestine in the 1st century. |
| (0.56) | (Amo 7:13) | 2 tn Heb “for it is a temple of a king and it is a royal house.” It is possible that the phrase “royal house” refers to a temple rather than a palace. See S. M. Paul, Amos (Hermeneia), 243. |
| (0.56) | (Eze 4:11) | 1 sn A pint and a half [Heb “one-sixth of a hin”]. One-sixth of a hin was a quantity of liquid equal to about 1.3 pints or 0.6 liters. |
| (0.56) | (Pro 21:9) | 3 tn Heb “a wife of contentions”; KJV “a brawling woman”; TEV, CEV “a nagging wife.” The Greek version has no reference to a quarrelsome wife, but instead mentions justice in a common house. |
| (0.56) | (Pro 16:17) | 1 sn The point of righteous living is made with the image of a highway, a raised and well-graded road (a hypocatastasis, implying a comparison between a highway and the right way of living). |
| (0.53) | (Exo 6:14) | 2 tn The expression is literally “the house of their fathers.” This expression means that the household or family descended from a single ancestor. It usually indicates a subdivision of a tribe, that is, a clan, or the subdivision of a clan, that is, a family. Here it refers to a clan (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 46). |
| (0.52) | (Rev 21:13) | 1 tn The words “There are” have been supplied to make a complete English sentence. This is a continuation of the previous sentence, a lengthy and complicated one in Greek. |
| (0.52) | (Rev 19:12) | 2 sn Diadem crowns were a type of crown used as a symbol of the highest ruling authority in a given area, and thus often associated with kingship. |
| (0.52) | (Rev 13:1) | 3 sn Diadem crowns were a type of crown used as a symbol of the highest ruling authority in a given area, and thus often associated with kingship. |
