Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Hos 7:16) | 3 tn Heb “this [will] be for scorn in the land of Egypt”; cf. NIV “they will be ridiculed (NAB “shall be mocked”) in the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.30) | (Hos 8:5) | 1 tn Heb “How long will they be able to be free from punishment?” This rhetorical question affirms that Israel will not survive much longer until God punishes it. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 5:6) | 2 tn Heb “they go out to seek the Lord”; cf. NCV “to worship the Lord,” NLT “to offer sacrifices to the Lord.” |
| (0.30) | (Hos 4:13) | 1 tn The phrase “they sacrifice” is not repeated in the Hebrew text here but is implied by parallelism; it is provided in the translation for the sake of clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 3:1) | 8 tn Heb “they are lovers of cakes of raisins.” A number of English translations render this literally (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). |
| (0.30) | (Dan 11:6) | 1 sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 b.c.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 b.c.). |
| (0.30) | (Dan 2:13) | 2 tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 38:2) | 4 sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 33:31) | 1 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 25:15) | 2 tn Heb “have acted with vengeance and taken vengeance with vengeance.” The repetition emphasizes the degree of vengeance which they exhibited, presumably toward Judah. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 22:9) | 2 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 21:7) | 2 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 11:15) | 4 tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 11:3) | 1 tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 1:19) | 3 tn The vav (ו) prefixed to וְיָשִׁיבוּ (veyashivu) introduces a purpose clause: “they sought food for themselves, in order to keep themselves alive.” |
| (0.30) | (Lam 1:5) | 4 tn The singular noun שְׁבִי (shevi) is a collective singular, meaning “captives, prisoners.” It functions as an adverbial accusative of state: “[they] went away as captives.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 50:45) | 1 tn The words “the people who inhabit” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 50:31) | 4 tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 50:27) | 4 tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 50:25) | 4 tn The words “of Babylonia” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent. |
