Discovery Box| (0.562021) | (Deu 2:23) |
1 sn Avvites. Otherwise unknown, these people were probably also Anakite (or Rephaite) giants who lived in the lower Mediterranean coastal plain until they were expelled by the Caphtorites. |
| (0.562021) | (Jos 21:42) |
1 tn Heb “these cities were city [by] city, and its grazing areas [were] around it; so [it was] for all these cities.” |
| (0.562021) | (1Ki 9:20) |
1 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.” |
| (0.562021) | (1Ki 11:7) |
3 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2). |
| (0.562021) | (2Ch 8:7) |
1 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from Israel.” |
| (0.562021) | (Ezr 2:62) |
2 tn Heb “their records were searched for in the genealogical materials, but were not found.” This passive construction has been translated as active for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.562021) | (Isa 47:9) |
4 sn Reference is made to incantations and amulets, both of which were important in Mesopotamian religion. They were used to ward off danger and demons. |
| (0.562021) | (Jer 25:25) |
3 sn Elam and Media were east of Babylon; Elam in the south and Media in the north. They were in what is now western Iran. |
| (0.562021) | (Jer 48:37) |
1 sn The actions referred to here were all acts that were used to mourn the dead (cf. Isa 15:2-3). |
| (0.562021) | (Eze 38:2) |
4 sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5). |
| (0.562021) | (Hag 2:16) |
1 tn Heb “from their being,” idiomatic for “from the time they were then,” or “since the time.” Cf. KJV “Since those days were.” |
| (0.562021) | (Luk 17:2) |
2 tn Grk “if a millstone were tied…and he were thrown.” The conditional construction in Greek has been translated by English infinitives: “to have… and be thrown.” |
| (0.562021) | (Joh 9:27) |
3 tn “It” is not in the Greek text but has been supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when they were clearly implied in the context. |
| (0.562021) | (Act 8:25) |
4 tn Grk “they were returning to Jerusalem and were proclaiming.” The first imperfect is taken ingressively and the second is viewed iteratively (“proclaiming…as they went”). |
| (0.562021) | (Gal 2:9) |
2 tn Or “who were influential as,” or “who were reputed to be.” See also the note on the word “influential” in 2:6. |
| (0.54327653225806) | (Gen 2:25) |
1 tn Heb “And the two of them were naked, the man and his wife.” |
| (0.54327653225806) | (Gen 7:19) |
1 tn Heb “and the waters were great exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition emphasizes the depth of the waters. |
| (0.54327653225806) | (Gen 10:3) |
1 sn The descendants of Gomer were all northern tribes of the Upper Euphrates. |
| (0.54327653225806) | (Gen 26:8) |
2 tn Heb “and it happened when the days were long to him there.” |
| (0.54327653225806) | (Gen 26:35) |
1 tn Heb “And they were [a source of ] bitterness in spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.” |
