Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Deu 3:11) | 6 tn Heb “4 cubits.” This would be 6 ft (1.8 m) wide. |
| (0.50) | (Num 31:18) | 1 tn Or “girls.” The Hebrew indicates they would be female children, making the selection easy. |
| (0.50) | (Num 27:18) | 3 sn This symbolic act would indicate the transfer of leadership to Joshua. |
| (0.50) | (Num 13:23) | 1 tn The word is related etymologically to the verb for “slip, slide, bend, totter.” This would fit the use very well. A pole that would not bend would be hard to use to carry things, but a pole or stave that was flexible would serve well. |
| (0.50) | (Exo 34:12) | 2 sn A snare would be a trap, an allurement to ruin. See Exod 23:33. |
| (0.50) | (Gen 21:16) | 1 sn A bowshot would be a distance of about 100 yards (90 meters). |
| (0.50) | (Gen 19:31) | 2 tn Or perhaps “on earth,” in which case the statement would be hyperbolic. |
| (0.49) | (Lev 10:19) | 2 tn Heb “today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and like these things have happened to me, and (if) I had eaten sin offering today would it be good in the eyes of the Lord?” The idiom “would it be good in the eyes of [the Lord]” has been translated “would [the Lord] have been pleased.” Cf. NRSV “would it have been agreeable to the Lord?”; CEV, NLT “Would the Lord have approved?” |
| (0.49) | (Exo 24:7) | 1 tn The noun “book” would be the scroll just written containing the laws of chaps. 20-23. On the basis of this scroll the covenant would be concluded here. The reading of this book would assure the people that it was the same that they had agreed to earlier. But now their statement of willingness to obey would be more binding because their promise would be confirmed by a covenant of blood. |
| (0.44) | (Act 24:26) | 1 sn Would give him money. That is, would offer him a bribe in exchange for his release. Such practices were fairly common among Roman officials of the period (Josephus, Ant. 2.12.3 [2.272-274]). |
| (0.44) | (Act 21:32) | 7 sn The mob stopped beating Paul because they feared the Romans would arrest them for disturbing the peace and for mob violence. They would let the Roman officials take care of the matter from this point on. |
| (0.44) | (Act 7:19) | 5 tn Grk “so that they could not be kept alive,” but in this context the phrase may be translated either “so that they would not continue to live,” or “so that they would die” (L&N 23.89). |
| (0.44) | (Luk 19:4) | 2 sn A sycamore tree would have large branches near the ground like an oak tree and would be fairly easy to climb. These trees reach a height of some 50 ft (about 15 m). |
| (0.44) | (Luk 16:3) | 4 sn To beg would represent a real lowering of status for the manager, because many of those whom he had formerly collected debts from, he would now be forced to beg from. |
| (0.44) | (Luk 9:13) | 6 sn Not only would going and buying food have been expensive and awkward at this late time of day, it would have taken quite a logistical effort to get the food back out to this isolated location. |
| (0.44) | (Luk 9:19) | 3 sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah. |
| (0.44) | (Luk 9:8) | 1 sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah. |
| (0.44) | (Mar 8:28) | 2 sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah. |
| (0.44) | (Mat 16:14) | 1 sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah. |
| (0.44) | (Dan 8:1) | 2 sn The third year of King Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 551 b.c. Daniel would have been approximately 69 years old at the time of this vision. |
