Discovery Box| (0.44) | (Pro 18:19) | 4 tn Heb “bars,” but this could be understood to mean “taverns,” so “barred gates” is employed in the translation. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 18:18) | 4 tn The word is the adjective, “mighty” (so KJV, NAB, NASB) used here substantivally as the object of the preposition. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 18:9) | 4 tn Heb “possessor of destruction.” This idiom means “destroyer” (so ASV); KJV “a great waster”; NRSV “a vandal.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 15:31) | 1 tn Heb “ear” (so KJV, NRSV). The term “ear” is a synecdoche of part (= ear) for the whole (= person). |
| (0.44) | (Pro 14:30) | 2 tn Heb “is the life of the flesh” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NIV “gives life to the body.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 14:5) | 1 tn Heb “a witness of faithfulness.” The genitive functions in an attributive sense: “faithful witness” (so KJV, NRSV); TEV “reliable witness.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 13:3) | 1 tn Heb “mouth” (so KJV, NAB). The term פֶּה (peh, “mouth”) functions as a metonymy of cause for speech. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 13:2) | 1 tn Heb “lips” (so NIV); KJV “mouth.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause for what the lips produce: speech. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 10:26) | 2 tn The participle is plural, and so probably should be taken in a distributive sense: “to each one who sends him.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 10:19) | 3 tn Heb “his lips” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “his tongue.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause for speech. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 10:2) | 1 tn Heb “treasures of wickedness” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “Ill-gotten gains”; TEV “Wealth that you get by dishonesty.” |
| (0.44) | (Pro 8:22) | 3 tn Heb “his way” (so KJV, NASB). The word “way” is an idiom (implied comparison) for the actions of God. |
| (0.44) | (Pro 3:7) | 1 tn Heb “in your own eyes” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.” |
| (0.44) | (Psa 144:5) | 3 tn Heb “so they might smolder.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. |
| (0.44) | (Psa 109:24) | 2 tn Heb “and my flesh is lean away from fatness [i.e., “lean so as not to be fat”].” |
| (0.44) | (Psa 92:15) | 1 tn Heb “so that [they] proclaim that upright [is] the Lord, my rocky summit, and there is no injustice in him.” |
| (0.44) | (Job 36:10) | 2 tn The revelation is in the preceding verse, and so a pronoun must be added to make the reference clear. |
| (0.44) | (Job 29:25) | 1 tn All of these imperfects describe what Job used to do, and so they all fit the category of customary imperfect. |
| (0.44) | (Job 22:29) | 1 tn There is no expressed subject here, and so the verb is taken as a passive voice again. |
| (0.44) | (Job 15:28) | 2 tn The verbal idea serves here to modify “houses” as a relative clause; so a relative pronoun is added. |
