Discovery Box| (0.44) | (Jer 5:28) | 2 tn The meaning of this word is uncertain. This verb occurs only here. The lexicons generally relate it to the word translated “plate” in Song 5:14 and understand it to mean “smooth, shiny” (so BDB 799 s.v. I עֶשֶׁת) or “fat” (so HALOT 850 s.v. II עֶשֶׁת). The word in Song 5:14 more likely means “smooth” than “plate” (so TEV). So “sleek” is most likely here. |
| (0.44) | (Isa 66:16) | 1 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “upon all men”; TEV “all the people of the world.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 65:22) | 4 tn Heb “the work of their hands” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “their hard-won gains.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 65:8) | 1 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 61:3) | 3 tn Heb “a faint spirit” (so NRSV); KJV, ASV “the spirit of heaviness”; NASB “a spirit of fainting.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 59:2) | 1 tn Heb “and your sins have caused [his] face to be hidden from you so as not to hear.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 51:14) | 2 tn Heb “the pit” (so KJV); ASV, NAB “die and go down into the pit”; NASB, NIV “dungeon”; NCV “prison.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 45:14) | 2 tn Or perhaps, “merchandise” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “the gain of Ethiopia”; CEV “the treasures of Ethiopia.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 44:7) | 1 tn Heb “let him call” or “let him proclaim” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “Let him stand up and speak.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 40:11) | 1 tn Heb “in his bosom” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV), an expression which reflects closeness and protective care. |
| (0.44) | (Isa 37:2) | 1 tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 36:2) | 4 tn Heb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). |
| (0.44) | (Isa 30:10) | 1 tn Heb “who” (so NASB, NRSV). A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.44) | (Isa 22:15) | 1 tn Heb “who is over the house” (so ASV); NASB “who is in charge of the royal household.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 16:11) | 3 tn Heb “Kir Heres” (so ASV, NRSV, TEV, CEV), a variant name for “Kir Hareseth” (see v. 7). |
| (0.44) | (Pro 26:14) | 3 tn Because of the analogy within the verse, indicated in translation by supplying “like,” the conjunction vav has been translated “so.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 26:10) | 3 tn Because of the analogy within the verse, indicated in translation by supplying “like,” the conjunction vav has been translated “so.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 26:9) | 3 tn Because of the analogy within the verse, indicated in translation by supplying “like,” the conjunction vav has been translated “so.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 26:7) | 3 tn Because of the analogy within the verse, indicated in translation by supplying “like,” the conjunction vav has been translated “so.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 20:13) | 3 tn Heb “bread” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV), although the term often serves in a generic sense for food in general. |
