Discovery Box| (0.38) | (Num 23:9) | 3 tn The verb could also be taken as a reflexive—Israel does not consider itself as among the nations, meaning, they consider themselves to be unique. |
| (0.38) | (Num 23:2) | 1 tn The Hebrew text has “on the altar,” but since there were seven of each animal and seven altars, the implication is that this means on each altar. |
| (0.38) | (Num 22:19) | 2 tn This clause is also a verbal hendiadys: “what the Lord might add to speak,” meaning, “what more the Lord might say.” |
| (0.38) | (Num 16:38) | 1 tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves. |
| (0.38) | (Num 15:31) | 1 tn The verb בָּזָה (bazah, “to despise”) means to treat something as worthless, to treat it with contempt, to look down the nose at something as it were. |
| (0.38) | (Num 14:40) | 3 tn The verb is simply “said,” but it means the place that the Lord said to go up to in order to fight. |
| (0.38) | (Num 14:40) | 2 tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country. |
| (0.38) | (Num 14:40) | 1 tn The verb וַיַּשְׁכִּמוּ (vayyashkimu) is often found in a verbal hendiadys construction: “They rose early…and they went up” means “they went up early.” |
| (0.38) | (Num 14:18) | 1 tn The expression רַב־חֶסֶד (rav khesed) means “much of loyal love” or “faithful love.” Some have it “totally faithful,” but that omits the aspect of his love. |
| (0.38) | (Num 14:1) | 2 tn The two verbs “lifted up their voice and cried” form a hendiadys; the idiom of raising the voice means that they cried aloud. |
| (0.38) | (Num 13:2) | 2 tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.” |
| (0.38) | (Num 11:31) | 2 tn The verb means “burst forth” or “sprang up.” See the ways it is used in Gen 33:12, Judg 16:3, 14; Isa 33:20. |
| (0.38) | (Num 11:12) | 2 tn The verb means “to beget, give birth to.” The figurative image from procreation completes the parallel question, first the conceiving and second the giving birth to the nation. |
| (0.38) | (Num 10:25) | 1 tn The MT uses a word that actually means “assembler,” so these three tribes made up a strong rear force recognized as the assembler of all the tribes. |
| (0.38) | (Num 8:24) | 1 tn Heb “this which to the Levites.” The meaning is “This is what concerns the Levites,” that is, the following rulings are for them. |
| (0.38) | (Num 8:12) | 2 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals. |
| (0.38) | (Num 6:18) | 3 tn Heb “which is under the peace offering.” The verse does not mean that the hair had to be put under that sacrifice and directly on the fire. |
| (0.38) | (Num 5:8) | 1 sn For more information on the word, see A. R. Johnson, “The Primary Meaning of גאל,” VTSup 1 (1953): 67-77. |
| (0.38) | (Num 3:47) | 1 tn The verb again is the perfect tense in sequence; the meaning of “take” may be interpreted here with the sense of “collect.” |
| (0.38) | (Num 3:39) | 1 tn Here again the Hebrew has “at the mouth of,” meaning in accordance with what the Lord said. So also in v. 51. |
