Luke 22:32

22:32 but I have prayed for you, Simon, ¹  that your faith may not fail. ²  When ³  you have turned back, ⁴  strengthen ⁵  your brothers.”

Deuteronomy 3:28

3:28 Commission ⁶  Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Job 4:3-4

4:3 Look, ⁷  you have instructed ⁸  many;

you have strengthened ⁹  feeble hands. ¹⁰ 

4:4 Your words have supported ¹¹  those

who stumbled, ¹² 

and you have strengthened the knees

that gave way. ¹³ 

Daniel 10:16-19

10:16 Then ¹⁴  one who appeared to be a human being ¹⁵  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ¹⁶  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. 10:17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you? ¹⁷  My strength is gone, ¹⁸  and I am breathless.” 10:18 Then the one who appeared to be a human being touched me again ¹⁹  and strengthened me. 10:19 He said to me, “Don’t be afraid, you who are valued. ²⁰  Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, “Sir, you may speak now, ²¹  for you have given me strength.”

Daniel 11:1

11:1 And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I ²²  stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.)

Acts 18:23

18:23 After he spent ²³  some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia ²⁴  and Phrygia, ²⁵  strengthening all the disciples.

Hebrews 2:17

2:17 Therefore he had ²⁶  to be made like his brothers and sisters ²⁷  in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement ²⁸  for the sins of the people.

[22:32]  ¹ sn Here and in the remainder of the verse the second person pronouns are singular, so only Peter is in view. The name “Simon” has been supplied as a form of direct address to make this clear in English.

[22:32]  ² sn That your faith may not fail. Note that Peter’s denials are pictured here as lapses, not as a total absence of faith.

[22:32]  ³ tn Grk “And when.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[22:32]  ⁴ tn Or “turned around.”

[22:32]  ⁵ sn Strengthen your brothers refers to Peter helping to strengthen their faith. Jesus quite graciously restores Peter “in advance,” even with the knowledge of his approaching denials.

[3:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

[4:3]  ⁷ tn The deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “behold”) summons attention; it has the sense of “consider, look.”

[4:3]  ⁸ tn The verb יָסַר (yasar) in the Piel means “to correct,” whether by words with the sense of teach, or by chastening with the sense of punish, discipline. The double meaning of “teach” and “discipline” is also found with the noun מוּסָר (musar).

[4:3]  ⁹ tn The parallelism again uses a perfect verb in the first colon and an imperfect in the second; but since the sense of the line is clearly what Job has done in the past, the second verb may be treated as a preterite, or a customary imperfect – what Job repeatedly did in the past (GKC 315 §107.e). The words in this verse may have double meanings. The word יָסַר (yasar, “teach, discipline”) may have the idea of instruction and correction, but also the connotation of strength (see Y. Hoffmann, “The Use of Equivocal Words in the First Speech of Eliphaz [Job IV–V],” VT 30 [1980]: 114-19).

[4:3]  ¹⁰ tn The “feeble hands” are literally “hands hanging down.” This is a sign of weakness, helplessness, or despondency (see 2 Sam 4:1; Isa 13:7).

[4:4]  ¹¹ tn Both verbs in this line are imperfects, and probably carry the same nuance as the last verb in v. 3, namely, either customary imperfect or preterite. The customary has the aspect of stressing that this was what Job used to do.

[4:4]  ¹² tn The form is the singular active participle, interpreted here collectively. The verb is used of knees that give way (Isa 35:3; Ps 109:24).

[4:4]  ¹³ tn The expression is often translated as “feeble knees,” but it literally says “the bowing [or “tottering”] knees.” The figure is one who may be under a heavy load whose knees begin to shake and buckle (see also Heb 12:12).

[10:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16]  ¹⁵ tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”

[10:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.

[10:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”

[10:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “does not stand.”

[10:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “He added and touched me.” The construction is a verbal hendiadys.

[10:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “treasured man.”

[10:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “my lord may speak.”

[11:1]  ²² sn The antecedent of the pronoun “I” is the angel, not Daniel. The traditional chapter division at this point, and the presence of a chronological note in the verse similar to ones used elsewhere in the book to position Daniel’s activities in relation to imperial affairs, sometimes lead to confusion on this matter.

[18:23]  ²³ tn Grk “Having spent”; the participle ποιήσας (poihsas) is taken temporally.

[18:23]  ²⁴ sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor, or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch. The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[18:23]  ²⁵ sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia. See Acts 16:6.

[2:17]  ²⁶ tn Or “he was obligated.”

[2:17]  ²⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[2:17]  ²⁸ tn Or “propitiation.”