Discovery Box| (0.490148) | (Psa 58:8) |
3 tn The words “let them be like” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. The jussive mood is implied from the preceding context, and “like” is understood by ellipsis (see the previous line). |
| (0.490148) | (Psa 102:11) |
1 tn Heb “my days [are] like an extended [or “lengthening”] shadow,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. |
| (0.490148) | (Psa 109:23) |
1 tn Heb “like a shadow when it is extended I go.” He is like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11. |
| (0.490148) | (Psa 114:4) |
1 sn The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. This may recall the theophany at Sinai when the mountain shook before God’s presence (Exod 19:18). |
| (0.490148) | (Psa 144:4) |
2 tn Heb “his days [are] like a shadow that passes away,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11. |
| (0.490148) | (Pro 21:1) |
3 tn “Channels of water” (פַּלְגֵי, palge) is an adverbial accusative, functioning as a figure of comparison – “like channels of water.” Cf. NAB “Like a stream”; NIV “watercourse”; NRSV, NLT “a stream of water.” |
| (0.490148) | (Isa 53:3) |
2 tn Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see BDB 712 s.v. מַסְתֵּר). |
| (0.490148) | (Amo 4:11) |
2 tn Heb “like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The divine name may be used in an idiomatic superlative sense here, in which case one might translate, “like the great [or “disastrous”] overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” |
| (0.490148) | (1Jo 3:2) |
7 tn The second ὅτι (Joti) in 3:2 is best understood as causal, giving the reason why believers will be like God: “we shall be like him, because we shall see him just as he is.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Gen 3:22) |
2 sn The man has become like one of us. See the notes on Gen 1:26 and 3:5. |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Gen 19:28) |
3 tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Gen 33:10) |
4 tn Heb “for therefore I have seen your face like seeing the face of God and you have accepted me.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Gen 50:20) |
2 tn Heb “God devised it for good in order to do, like this day, to preserve alive a great nation.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Num 23:23) |
2 tn The form is the preposition “like, as” and the word for “time” – according to the time, about this time, now. |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Jdg 5:31) |
1 tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (Jdg 7:12) |
1 tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (1Ki 7:8) |
2 tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (1Ki 10:10) |
2 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.” |
| (0.48728457142857) | (1Ki 11:4) |
2 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the |
| (0.48728457142857) | (1Ki 11:33) |
4 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.” |
