Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Ezr 8:21) | 1 tn Heb “a straight way.” |
| (1.00) | (2Sa 15:3) | 1 tn Heb “good and straight.” |
| (0.75) | (Pro 16:25) | 1 tn Heb “which is straight before a man.” |
| (0.75) | (Pro 14:12) | 1 tn Heb “which is straight before a man.” |
| (0.62) | (Eze 1:12) | 1 tn See the note on “straight ahead” in v. 9. |
| (0.62) | (Jer 49:5) | 2 tn Heb “You will be scattered, each man [straight] before him.” |
| (0.54) | (Act 21:1) | 5 tn BDAG 406 s.v. εὐθυδρομέω has “of a ship run a straight course”; L&N 54.3 has “to sail a straight course, sail straight to.” |
| (0.54) | (Act 16:11) | 3 tn BDAG 406 s.v. εὐθυδρομέω has “of a ship run a straight course” here; L&N 54.3 has “to sail a straight course, sail straight to.” |
| (0.53) | (Pro 9:6) | 3 tn The verb means “go straight, go on, advance” or “go straight on in the way of understanding” (BDB 80 s.v. אָשַׁר). |
| (0.50) | (Joh 1:23) | 2 sn This call to “make straight” is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance. |
| (0.50) | (Luk 20:21) | 2 tn Or “precisely”; Grk “rightly.” Jesus teaches exactly, the straight and narrow. |
| (0.50) | (Amo 4:3) | 1 tn Heb “and [through the] breaches you will go out, each straight ahead.” |
| (0.50) | (Jos 6:5) | 4 tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.” |
| (0.49) | (Pro 1:3) | 7 sn The Hebrew noun translated “equity” comes from the root יָשָׁר (yashar) which has the basic idea of “upright, straight, right.” It refers to activity that is morally upright and straight, that is, on the proper moral path. Elsewhere it is used in a concrete sense to describe cows walking straight down a path without turning right or left (1 Sam 6:12). Wisdom literature often uses the motif of the straight path to describe a morally “straight” life. |
| (0.44) | (Act 9:11) | 1 sn The noting of the detail of the locale, ironically called ‘Straight’ Street, shows how directive and specific the Lord was. |
| (0.44) | (Mar 1:3) | 1 sn This call to “make his paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance. |
| (0.44) | (Mat 3:3) | 3 sn The call to “make paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance. |
| (0.44) | (Jos 6:20) | 6 tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.” |
| (0.43) | (Pro 2:13) | 2 tn Heb “paths of uprightness.” The noun יָשָׁר (yashar, “uprightness; straightness”) is an attributive genitive. The moral life is described in Proverbs as the smooth, straight way (2:13; 4:11). The wicked abandon the clear straight path for an evil, crooked, uncertain path. |
| (0.38) | (Heb 12:13) | 1 sn A quotation from Prov 4:26. The phrase make straight paths for your feet is figurative for “stay on God’s paths.” |
