Discovery Box| (0.61660152380952) | (Num 26:1) |
1 sn The breakdown of ch. 26 for outlining purposes will be essentially according to the tribes of Israel. The format and structure is similar to the first census, and so less comment is necessary here. |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Deu 21:1) |
1 tn Heb “slain [one].” The term חָלָל (khalal) suggests something other than a natural death (cf. Num 19:16; 23:24; Jer 51:52; Ezek 26:15; 30:24; 31:17-18). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Deu 26:5) |
2 sn A wandering Aramean. This is a reference to Jacob whose mother Rebekah was an Aramean (Gen 24:10; 25:20, 26) and who himself lived in Aram for at least twenty years (Gen 31:41-42). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Deu 28:60) |
1 sn These are the plagues the |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Jos 6:26) |
4 tn The Hebrew phrase אָרוּר לִפְנֵי יְהוָה (’arur lifney yÿhvah, “cursed [i.e., condemned] before the |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Rut 1:10) |
1 tn The particle כִּי (ki) here has the force of “no, on the contrary” (see Gen 31:26; Ps 44:22; HALOT 470 s.v. II כִּי 3). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (1Sa 19:17) |
1 tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26. |
| (0.61660152380952) | (1Ch 1:41) |
2 tn The parallel geneaology in Gen 36:26 has the variant spelling “Hemdan.” Some English versions follow the variant spelling here (e.g., NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (1Ch 7:13) |
2 tc Most Hebrew |
| (0.61660152380952) | (1Ch 7:40) |
1 tn Heb “all these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, selected, warriors, heads of the leaders, and there was listed in the genealogical records in war, in battle, their number, men, 26,000.” |
| (0.61660152380952) | (2Ch 20:1) |
1 tc The Hebrew text has “Ammonites,” but they are mentioned just before this. Most translations, following some |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Ezr 6:19) |
1 sn At this point the language of the book reverts from Aramaic (4:8–6:18) back to Hebrew. Aramaic will again be used in Ezra 7:12-26. |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 1:16) |
1 tn The particle עוֹד (’od, “still”) is used with the participle to express the past circumstances when something else happened (IBHS 625-26 §37.6d). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 2:5) |
1 sn The “bones and flesh” are idiomatic for the whole person, his physical and his psychical/spiritual being (see further H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 26-28). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 5:13) |
3 tn The etymology of נִפְתָּלִים (niftalim) suggests a meaning of “twisted” (see Prov 8:8) in the sense of tortuous. See Gen 30:8; Ps 18:26 [27]. |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 11:11) |
2 tn The expression is literally “men of emptiness” (see Ps 26:4). These are false men, for שָׁוְא (shavÿ’) can mean “vain, empty, or false, deceitful.” |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 20:22) |
1 tn The word שָׂפַק (safaq) occurs only here; it means “sufficiency; wealth; abundance (see D. W. Thomas, “The Text of Jesaia 2:6 and the Word sapaq,” ZAW 75 [1963]: 88-90). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 22:12) |
2 tn The parallel passage in Isa 40:26-27, as well as the context here, shows that the imperative is to be retained here. The LXX has “he sees.” |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 36:1) |
1 sn This very lengthy speech can be broken down into the following sections: the discipline of suffering (36:2-25), the work and wisdom of God (36:26–37:24). |
| (0.61660152380952) | (Job 36:27) |
2 tn This word עֵד (’ed) occurs also in Gen 2:6. The suggestion has been that instead of a mist it represents an underground watercourse that wells up to water the ground. |
