Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Gen 28:11) | 3 tn Heb “he took from the stones of the place,” which here means Jacob took one of the stones (see v. 18). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 27:29) | 3 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (which is either an imperfect or a jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 27:20) | 1 tn Heb “What is this?” The enclitic pronoun “this” adds emphasis to the question, which is comparable to the English rhetorical question, “How in the world?” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 26:2) | 1 sn Do not go down to Egypt. The words echo Gen 12:10, which reports that “Abram went down to Egypt,” but state the opposite. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:30) | 2 tn Heb “let it not be hot to the Lord.” This is an idiom which means “may the Lord not be angry.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:20) | 1 tn Heb “the outcry of Sodom,” which apparently refers to the outcry for divine justice from those (unidentified persons) who observe its sinful ways. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:5) | 4 tn Heb “so that you may refresh yourselves, after [which] you may be on your way—for therefore you passed by near your servant.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 15:21) | 1 tn Each of the names in the list has the Hebrew definite article, which is used here generically for the class of people identified. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 13:4) | 1 tn Heb “to the place of the altar which he had made there in the beginning” (cf. Gen 12:7-8). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 13:1) | 2 tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 2:6) | 2 tn Heb “was going up.” The verb is an imperfect form, which in this narrative context carries a customary nuance, indicating continual action in past time. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 2:7) | 2 tn The line literally reads “And Yahweh God formed the man, soil, from the ground.” “Soil” is an adverbial accusative, identifying the material from which the man was made. |
| (0.28) | (1Jo 4:3) | 1 tn The καί (kai) which begins 4:3 introduces the “negative side” of the test by which the spirits might be known in 4:2-3. Thus it is adversative in force: “every spirit that confesses Jesus as Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, but every Spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.” |
| (0.28) | (1Jo 3:22) | 1 tn The conjunction καί (kai) which begins 3:22 is epexegetical (explanatory), relating a further implication of the “confidence” (παρρησίαν, parrēsian) which believers have before God when their heart (conscience) does not condemn them. They can ask things of God with the expectation of receiving their requests. |
| (0.28) | (1Jo 3:17) | 3 tn Here a subjective genitive, indicating God’s love for us—the love which comes from God—appears more likely because of the parallelism with “eternal life” (ζωὴν αἰώνιον, zōēn aiōnion) in 3:15, which also comes from God. |
| (0.28) | (1Pe 2:2) | 3 tn The word for spiritual in Greek is λογικός (logikos), which is a play on words with the reference in 1:23-25 to the living and enduring word (λόγος, logos) of God, through which they were born anew. This is a subtle indication that the nourishment for their growth must be the word of God. |
| (0.28) | (Eph 6:14) | 1 sn The four participles fastening…putting on…fitting…taking up… indicate the means by which believers can take their stand against the devil and his schemes. The imperative take in v. 17 communicates another means by which to accomplish the standing, i.e., by the word of God. |
| (0.28) | (Eph 5:12) | 1 tn The participle τὰ…γινόμενα (ta…ginomena) usually refers to “things happening” or “things which are,” but with the following genitive phrase ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν (hup’ autōn), which indicates agency, the idea seems to be “things being done.” This passive construction was translated as an active one to simplify the English style. |
| (0.28) | (Rom 1:2) | 1 tn Grk “the gospel of God, which he promised.” Because of the length and complexity of this sentence in Greek, it was divided into shorter English sentences in keeping with contemporary English style. To indicate the referent of the relative pronoun (“which”), the word “gospel” was repeated at the beginning of v. 2. |
| (0.28) | (Act 26:12) | 1 tn Grk “in which [activity].” Due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 in the translation. The referent of the relative pronoun (“which”) was specified as “this very thing” for clarity. |
