Discovery Box| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 23:11) |
3 tn Heb “concerning Canaan, to destroy her fortresses.” NIV, NLT translate “Canaan” as “Phoenicia” here. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 34:9) |
1 tn Heb “her”; the referent (Edom) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 49:15) |
2 tn Heb “so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb?” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 49:23) |
1 tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b). |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 57:9) |
4 sn Israel’s devotion to her idols is inordinate, irrational, and self-destructive. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 66:11) |
2 tn Heb “you will suck and be satisfied, from her comforting breast.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 66:11) |
3 tn Heb “you will slurp and refresh yourselves from her heavy breast.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 66:11) |
3 sn Zion’s residents will benefit from and enjoy her great material prosperity. See v. 12. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Isa 66:12) |
2 tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11). |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Jer 3:10) |
2 tn Heb “ has not turned back to me with all her heart but only in falsehood.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Jer 6:2) |
2 sn Jerusalem is personified as a young maiden who is helpless in the hands of her enemies. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Jer 9:20) |
4 tn Heb “Teach…mournful song, and each woman her neighbor lady…” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Jer 51:6) |
3 tn Heb “paying to her a recompense [i.e., a payment in kind].” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Jer 51:36) |
2 tn Heb “I will dry up her [Babylon’s] sea and make her fountain dry.” “Their” has been substituted for “her” because “Babylonians” has been inserted in the previous clause and is easier to understand than the personification of Babylon = “her.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Lam 1:5) |
2 tn The nuance expressed in the LXX is that her enemies prosper (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT). |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Lam 1:5) |
3 tn Heb “because of her many rebellions.” The plural פְּשָׁעֶיהָ (pÿsha’eha, “her rebellions”) is an example of the plural of repeated action or characteristic behavior (see IBHS 121 §7.4.2c). The 3rd person feminine singular suffix (“her”) probably functions as a subjective genitive: “her rebellions” = “she has rebelled.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Lam 1:6) |
3 tn Heb “It has gone out from the daughter of Zion, all her splendor.” |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Lam 1:9) |
3 tn Heb “her skirts.” This term is a synecdoche of specific (skirts) for general (clothing). |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Eze 22:25) |
2 tn Heb “her widows they have multiplied.” The statement alludes to their murderous acts. |
| (0.50487474074074) | (Eze 23:17) |
1 tn Heb “The sons of Babel came to her on a bed of love.” |
