(0.37) | (Pro 10:19) | 1 tn Heb “does not cease.” It is impossible to avoid sinning in an abundance of words—sooner or later one is bound to say something wrong. |
(0.37) | (Pro 9:15) | 3 tn The noun is a genitive of location after the construct participle. Its parallel word is also an adverbial accusative of location. |
(0.37) | (Pro 6:31) | 3 tn The imperfect tense has an obligatory nuance. The verb in the Piel means “to repay; to make restitution; to recompense”; cf. NCV, TEV, CEV “must pay back.” |
(0.37) | (Pro 6:5) | 2 tc Heb “hand” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV). Some mss and versions have it as “trap,” which may very well represent an interpretation too. |
(0.37) | (Pro 5:4) | 1 sn Heb “her end” (so KJV). D. Kidner notes that Proverbs does not allow us to forget that there is an afterward (Proverbs [TOTC], 65). |
(0.37) | (Pro 3:25) | 2 tn Heb “terror of suddenness.” The noun פִּתְאֹם (pitʾom, “sudden”) functions as an attributive genitive: “sudden terror” (e.g., Job 22:10; BDB 837 s.v.). |
(0.37) | (Pro 3:10) | 1 tn Heb “with plenty” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “to overflowing.” The noun שָׂבָע (savaʿ, “plenty; satiety”) functions as an adverbial accusative of manner or contents: “completely.” |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:20) | 3 tn In the light of the parallelism, the noun “righteous” (צַדִּיקִים, tsaddiqim) functions as a genitive of possession rather than an attributive genitive. |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:15) | 1 tn The noun in this relative clause is an accusative of specification: The evil people are twisted with respect to their paths/conduct. |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:7) | 6 tn Heb “walk.” The verb “to walk” (הָלַךְ, halakh) is an idiom (based upon hypocatastasis: implied comparison) for habitual manner of life (BDB 234 s.v. 3.e). |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:6) | 2 tn The verb is an imperfect tense which probably functions as a habitual imperfect describing a universal truth in the past, present and future. |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:5) | 2 tn Heb “the fear of the Lord.” The noun is an objective genitive; the Lord is to be the object of fear and reverence. |
(0.37) | (Pro 2:2) | 1 tn The Hiphil infinitive construct לְהַקְשִׁיב (lehaqshiv, “by making attentive”) functions as an epexegetical explanation of how one will receive the instruction. |
(0.37) | (Pro 1:29) | 3 tn Heb “the fear of the Lord.” The noun is an objective genitive; the Lord is to be the object of fear. See note on 1:7. |
(0.37) | (Pro 1:24) | 2 tn The particle יַעַן (yaʿan, “because”) introduces a causal clause which forms part of an extended protasis; the apodosis is 1:26. |
(0.37) | (Pro 1:15) | 4 sn The word “path” (נְתִיבָה, netivah) like the word “way” (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) is used as an idiom (developed from a hypocatastasis), meaning “conduct, course of life.” |
(0.37) | (Pro 1:4) | 6 tn Heb “young man” or “youth.” The term sometimes applies to an assistant, or servant, or someone in training for a higher position. |
(0.37) | (Pro 1:4) | 6 sn As this second clause does not begin with “and” in Hebrew, it may be understood as an expansion what it means to impart shrewdness. |
(0.37) | (Psa 144:12) | 3 tn The Hebrew noun occurs only here and in Zech 9:15, where it refers to the corners of an altar. |
(0.37) | (Psa 144:2) | 1 tn Heb “my loyal love,” which is probably an abbreviated form of “the God of my loyal love” (see Ps 59:10, 17). |