Discovery Box| (0.42) | (Luk 1:22) | 3 tn That is, “he had had a supernatural encounter in the holy place,” since the angel came to Zechariah by the altar. This was not just a “mental experience.” |
| (0.42) | (Jon 1:10) | 5 tn Heb “because he had told them.” The verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he had told”) functions as a past perfect, referring to a previous event. |
| (0.42) | (Dan 5:20) | 2 sn The point of describing Nebuchadnezzar as arrogant is that he had usurped divine prerogatives, and because of his immense arrogance God had dealt decisively with him. |
| (0.42) | (Jer 48:11) | 1 sn The picture is that of undisturbed complacency (cf. Zeph 1:12). Because Moab had never known the discipline of exile, she had remained as she always was. |
| (0.42) | (Exo 35:23) | 2 tn The conjunction in this verse is translated “or” because the sentence does not intend to say that each person had all these things. They brought what they had. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 3:3) | 2 tn Grk “keep it,” in the sense of obeying what they had initially been taught. |
| (0.40) | (1Th 1:9) | 2 tn Grk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received). |
| (0.40) | (2Co 1:9) | 1 tn Grk “we ourselves had the sentence of death within ourselves.” Here ἀπόκριμα (apokrima) is being used figuratively; no actual official verdict had been given, but in light of all the difficulties that Paul and his colleagues had suffered, it seemed to them as though such an official verdict had been rendered against them (L&N 56.26). |
| (0.40) | (Act 21:34) | 4 tn Or “find out what had happened”; Grk “the certainty” (BDAG 147 s.v. ἀσφαλής 2). |
| (0.40) | (Act 12:19) | 2 tn Or “had instigated a search” (Herod would have ordered the search rather than conducting it himself). |
| (0.40) | (Act 10:41) | 1 tn Or “the witnesses God had previously chosen.” See Acts 1:8. |
| (0.40) | (Act 9:2) | 4 sn From Damascus to Jerusalem was a six-day journey. Christianity had now expanded into Syria. |
| (0.40) | (Act 7:14) | 2 tn Or “Joseph had his father summoned” (BDAG 121 s.v. ἀποστέλλω 2.b). |
| (0.40) | (Luk 23:48) | 1 sn Some apparently regretted what had taken place. Beating their breasts was a sign of lamentation. |
| (0.40) | (Luk 19:42) | 1 sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44. |
| (0.40) | (Luk 12:4) | 2 sn Judaism had a similar exhortation in 4 Macc 13:14-15. |
| (0.40) | (Luk 9:7) | 4 sn John refers to John the Baptist, whom Herod had beheaded (v. 9). |
| (0.40) | (Luk 7:1) | 2 tn Grk “After he had completed all his sayings in the hearing of the people.” |
| (0.40) | (Mar 8:16) | 1 tn Grk “And they were discussing with one another that they had no bread.” |
| (0.40) | (Jon 3:10) | 3 tn Heb “the disaster that he had spoken to do to them.” |
