Discovery Box| (0.148863125) | (Exo 15:24) |
2 tn The imperfect tense here should be given a potential nuance: “What can we drink?” since the previous verse reports that they were not able to drink the water. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 16:7) |
2 tn The form is a Qal infinitive construct with a preposition and a suffix. It forms an adverbial clause, usually of time, but here a causal clause. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 16:15) |
1 tn The preterite with vav consecutive is here subordinated to the next verb as a temporal clause. The main point of the verse is what they said. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 16:19) |
1 tn The address now is for “man” (אִישׁ, ’ish), “each one”; here the instruction seems to be focused on the individual heads of the households. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 16:21) |
2 tn The perfect tenses here with vav (ו) consecutives have the frequentative sense; they function in a protasis-apodosis relationship (GKC 494 §159.g). |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 19:4) |
2 sn The language here is the language of a bridegroom bringing the bride to the chamber. This may be a deliberate allusion to another metaphor for the covenant relationship. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 19:9) |
1 tn The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 20:18) |
4 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following clause, which receives the prominence. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 22:10) |
2 tn This verb is frequently used with the meaning “to take captive.” The idea here then is that raiders or robbers have carried off the animal. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 22:23) |
3 tn Here is the normal use of the infinitive absolute with the imperfect tense to emphasize the verb: “I will surely hear,” implying, “I will surely respond.” |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 23:3) |
1 tn The point here is one of false sympathy and honor, the bad sense of the word הָדַר (hadar; see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 237). |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 24:14) |
3 tn The imperfect tense here has the nuance of potential imperfect. In the absence of Moses and Joshua, Aaron and Hur will be available. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 25:11) |
1 tn The verbs throughout here are perfect tenses with the vav (ו) consecutives. They are equal to the imperfect tense of instruction and/or injunction. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 25:11) |
2 tn Here the verb is an imperfect tense; for the perfect sequence to work the verb would have to be at the front of the clause. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 25:17) |
2 tn After verbs of making or producing, the accusative (like “gold” here) may be used to express the material from which something is made (see GKC 371 §117.hh). |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 25:19) |
2 tn The use of זֶה (zeh) repeated here expresses the reciprocal ideas of “the one” and “the other” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 26, §132). |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 25:22) |
2 tn The verb is placed here in the text: “and I will speak”; it has been moved in this translation to be closer to the direct object clause. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 28:9) |
1 tn Although this is normally translated “Israelites,” here a more literal translation is clearer because it refers to the names of the twelve tribes – the actual sons of Israel. |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 30:10) |
3 sn The phrase “most holy to the |
| (0.148863125) | (Exo 32:12) |
1 tn The question is rhetorical; it really forms an affirmation that is used here as a reason for the request (see GKC 474 §150.e). |
