Discovery Box| (0.13636015625) | (Dan 8:25) |
1 tn The Hebrew term has a primary meaning of “skill, insight,” but here it has the connotation “cunning, treachery.” See BDB 968 s.v. שֵׂכֶל, שֶׂכֶל. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Dan 9:13) |
3 tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">10-11. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 1:6) |
1 tn Heb “Then he said”; the referent (the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 1:6) |
4 tn The particle כִּי (ki) probably denotes cause (so NCV, TEV, CEV) or result here (GKC 505 §166.b; BDB 473 s.v. כִּי 3.c). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 1:9) |
4 tn Heb “I am not yours.” The divine name “God” is supplied in the translation for clarity even though the reading of the MT is followed (see previous tc note). Almost all English versions (including KJV, ASV, NASB) supply “God” here. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 4:1) |
4 tn Heb “there is no truthfulness nor loyalty nor knowledge of God in the land.” Here “knowledge of God” refers to recognition of his authority and obedience to his will. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 4:19) |
1 tn Heb “their altars” (so NAB, NRSV) or “their sacrifices” (so KJV, NASB, NIV). Here זִבְחוֹתָם (zivkhotam, “altars; sacrifices”) is a metonymy of association for Israel’s apostate idolatrous Baal worship. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 6:7) |
2 tn The verb עָבַר (’avar) refers here to breaking a covenant and carries the nuance “to overstep, transgress” (BDB 717 s.v. עָבַר 1.i). Cf. NAB “violated”; NRSV “transgressed.” |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 10:1) |
1 tn The phrase “to Baal” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is implied; it is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity. Cf. NCV “altars for idols”; NLT “altars of their foreign gods.” |
| (0.13636015625) | (Hos 11:12) |
2 tn The phrase “has surrounded me” is not repeated in the Hebrew text here, but is implied by the parallelism in the preceding line. It is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons, smoothness, and readability. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Joe 2:25) |
2 sn The same four terms for locust are used here as in Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">1:4, but in a different order. This fact creates some difficulty for the notion that the four words refer to four distinct stages of locust development. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Amo 1:11) |
6 tn Heb “his anger tore continually.” The Hebrew verb טָרַף (taraf, “tear apart”) is often used of an animal tearing apart its prey. The word picture here is that of a vicious predator’s feeding frenzy. |
| (0.13636015625) | (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.” |
| (0.13636015625) | (Amo 5:15) |
1 tn Heb “set up, establish.” In the ancient Near East it was the responsibility especially of the king to establish justice. Here the prophet extends that demand to local leaders and to the nation as a whole (cf. Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">5:24). |
| (0.13636015625) | (Oba 1:1) |
5 tn The Hebrew preposition לְ (lÿ) is better translated here “concerning” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV, NLT) or “about” (so NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV) Edom rather than “to” Edom, although much of the book does speak directly to Edom. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Jon 1:2) |
8 sn The term wickedness is personified here; it is pictured as ascending heavenward into the very presence of God. This figuratively depicts how God became aware of their evil – it had ascended into heaven right into his presence. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Jon 1:4) |
3 tn Heb “great.” Typically English versions vary the adjective here and before “tempest” to avoid redundancy: e.g., KJV, ASV, NRSV “great...mighty”; NAB “violent…furious”; NIV “great…violent”; NLT “powerful…violent.” |
| (0.13636015625) | (Jon 1:11) |
2 tn The vav-consecutive prefixed to the imperfect/prefixed conjugation verb וְיִשְׁתֹּק (vÿyishtoq, “to quiet”) denotes purpose/result (see IBHS 638-40 §38.3), translated here by the English infinitive. |
| (0.13636015625) | (Jon 4:2) |
6 tn Or “know.” What Jonah knew then he still knows about the |
| (0.13636015625) | (Mic 1:7) |
1 sn The precious metal used by Samaria’s pagan worship centers to make idols are here compared to a prostitute’s wages because Samaria had been unfaithful to the |
