Discovery Box| (0.40) | (Psa 17:13) | 3 tn Heb “rescue my life from the wicked [one] [by] your sword.” |
| (0.40) | (Psa 7:5) | 4 tn Heb “and may he trample down to the earth my life.” |
| (0.40) | (Job 21:25) | 3 tn Heb “eaten what is good.” It means he died without having enjoyed the good life. |
| (0.40) | (Job 2:4) | 5 tn Heb “Indeed, all that a man has he will give for his life.” |
| (0.40) | (1Ki 4:21) | 3 tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.” |
| (0.40) | (1Ki 2:23) | 2 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.” |
| (0.40) | (1Sa 26:24) | 2 tn Heb “may my life be great in the eyes of the Lord.” |
| (0.40) | (1Sa 20:17) | 1 tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.” |
| (0.40) | (Jdg 5:18) | 1 tn Heb “Zebulun was a people which despised its life even unto death.” |
| (0.40) | (Jos 20:3) | 1 tn Heb “so that the one who kills, taking life accidentally without knowledge, may flee there.” |
| (0.40) | (Deu 30:20) | 2 tn Heb “he is your life and the length of your days to live.” |
| (0.40) | (Deu 5:33) | 2 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.” |
| (0.40) | (Exo 32:12) | 3 tn The word “evil” means any kind of life-threatening or fatal calamity. “Evil” is that which hinders life, interrupts life, causes pain to life, or destroys it. The Egyptians would conclude that such a God would have no good intent in taking his people to the desert if now he destroyed them. |
| (0.40) | (Exo 31:14) | 5 tn Literally “her” (a feminine pronoun agreeing with “soul/life,” which is grammatically feminine). |
| (0.40) | (Gen 47:8) | 1 tn Heb “How many are the days of the years of your life?” |
| (0.40) | (Gen 37:21) | 4 tn Heb “we must not strike him down [with respect to] life.” |
| (0.40) | (Gen 3:20) | 2 sn The name Eve means “Living one” or “Life-giver” in Hebrew. |
| (0.40) | (Gen 2:9) | 4 tn In light of Gen 3:22, the construction “tree of life” should be interpreted to mean a tree that produces life-giving fruit (objective genitive) rather than a living tree (attributive genitive). See E. O. James, The Tree of Life (SHR); and R. Marcus, “The Tree of Life in Proverbs,” JBL 62 (1943): 117-20. |
| (0.38) | (Luk 17:33) | 3 sn The Greek word translated life can refer to both earthly, physical life and inner, transcendent life (one’s “soul”). In the context, if a person is not willing to suffer the world’s rejection and persecution in order to follow Jesus but instead seeks to retain his physical life, then that person will lose both physical life and inner, transcendent life (at the judgment). On the other hand, the one who willingly gives up earthly, physical life to follow Jesus (“loses his life”) will ultimately preserve one’s “soul” (note that the parallel in John’s Gospel speaks of “guarding one’s ‘soul’ for eternal life” (John 12:25). |
| (0.38) | (Mar 8:35) | 2 sn The Greek word translated life can refer to both earthly, physical life and inner, transcendent life (one’s “soul”). In the context, if a person is not willing to suffer the world’s rejection and persecution in order to follow Jesus but instead seeks to retain his physical life, then that person will lose both physical life and inner, transcendent life (at the judgment). On the other hand, the one who willingly gives up earthly, physical life to follow Jesus (“loses his life because of me and because of the gospel”) will ultimately find one’s “soul” (note that the parallel in John’s Gospel speaks of “guarding one’s ‘soul’ for eternal life” (John 12:25). |
