Discovery Box| (0.53209674074074) | (Pro 31:20) |
1 sn The parallel expressions here underscore her care for the needy. The first part uses “she spreads her palm” and the second “she thrusts out her hand,” repeating some of the vocabulary introduced in the last verse. |
| (0.53209674074074) | (Jer 51:47) |
2 tn Or “all her slain will fall in her midst.” In other words, her people will be overtaken by judgment and be unable to escape. The dead will lie in heaps in the very heart of the city and land. |
| (0.53209674074074) | (Lam 1:10) |
5 tn Heb “her sanctuary.” The term מִקְדָּשָׁהּ (miqdashah, “her sanctuary”) refers to the temple. Anthropomorphically, translating as “her sacred place” would also allow for the rape imagery. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Gen 30:9) |
1 tn Heb “she took her servant Zilpah and gave her.” The verbs “took” and “gave” are treated as a hendiadys in the translation: “she gave.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Gen 39:10) |
3 tn Heb “to lie beside her to be with her.” Here the expression “to lie beside” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Lev 12:4) |
2 tn Heb “in bloods of purification” or “purifying” or “purity”; NASB “in the blood of her purification”; NRSV “her time of blood purification.” See the following note. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Lev 15:19) |
2 tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above). |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Num 30:9) |
1 tn The Hebrew text says her vow “shall stand against her.” In other words, she must fulfill, or bear the consequences of, whatever she vowed. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Jos 6:22) |
2 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Rut 1:22) |
1 tn Heb “and Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, the one who returned from the region of Moab.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (1Ki 9:24) |
2 tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (2Ki 4:26) |
1 tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (2Ki 8:5) |
3 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Est 5:2) |
1 tn Heb “she obtained grace in his eyes”; NASB “she obtained favor in his sight”; NIV “he was pleased with her”; NLT “he welcomed her.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Pro 3:14) |
1 tn Heb “her profit.” The 3rd person feminine singular suffix on the noun is probably a genitive of source: “from her.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Pro 3:14) |
4 tn Heb “her yield.” The 3rd person feminine singular suffix on the noun is probably a genitive of source: “from her.” |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Pro 31:10) |
5 sn This line expresses that her value (Heb “her price”), like wisdom, is worth more than rubies (e.g., 3:15; 8:11). |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Pro 31:31) |
2 tn Heb “Give her from the fruit of her hands.” The expression “the fruit of her hands” employs two figures. The word “fruit” is a figure known as hypocatastasis, an implied comparison, meaning “what she produces.” The word “hand” is a metonymy of cause, meaning her efforts to produce things. So the line is saying essentially “give her her due.” This would either mean give her credit for what she has done (the option followed by the present translation; cf. TEV) or reward her for what she has done (cf. NAB, NIV, NLT). |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Jer 15:9) |
4 sn She has lost her position of honor and the source of her pride. For the concepts here see 1 Sam 2:5. |
| (0.52488269135802) | (Jer 31:16) |
3 tn Heb “your work.” Contextually her “work” refers to her weeping and refusing to be comforted, that is, signs of genuine repentance (v. 15). |
