Discovery Box| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 6:10) |
2 sn They were not able to resist. This represents another fulfillment of Luke 12:11-12; 21:15. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 8:7) |
2 tn Grk “For [in the case of] many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out, crying in a loud voice.” |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 10:9) |
2 tn The participles ὁδοιπορούντων (Jodoiporountwn, “while they were on their way”) and ἐγγιζόντων (engizontwn, “approaching”) have been translated as temporal participles. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 10:23) |
3 sn Some of the brothers from Joppa. As v. 45 makes clear, there were Jewish Christians in this group of witnesses. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 10:38) |
4 tn The translation “healing all who were oppressed by the devil” is given in L&N 22.22. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 11:3) |
1 tn Or “You were a guest in the home of” (according to L&N 23.12). |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Act 28:9) |
2 sn Many…also came and were healed. Again, here is irony. Paul, though imprisoned, “frees” others of their diseases. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Gal 2:9) |
3 sn Pillars is figurative here for those like James, Peter, and John who were leaders in the Jerusalem church. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Heb 11:2) |
2 tn Grk “were attested,” “received commendation”; and Heb 11:4-6 shows this to be from God. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (2Jo 1:5) |
2 tn The words “if I were” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied for clarity in English. |
| (0.50465064516129) | (Rev 15:2) |
4 tn Grk “of his name, standing.” A new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the words “They were.” |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Num 3:4) |
6 sn The two young priests had been cut down before they had children; the ranks of the family of Aaron were thereby cut in half in one judgment from God. The significance of the act of judgment was to show that the priests had to sanctify the |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Num 13:22) |
3 sn These names are thought to be three clans that were in the Hebron area (see Josh 15:14; Judg 1:20). To call them descendants of Anak is usually taken to mean that they were large or tall people (2 Sam 21:18-22). They were ultimately driven out by Caleb. |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Num 16:26) |
1 tn The word רָשָׁע (rasha’) has the sense of a guilty criminal. The word “wicked” sometimes gives the wrong connotation. These men were opposing the |
| (0.5018774516129) | (2Sa 24:22) |
2 sn Threshing sledges were heavy boards used in ancient times for loosening grain from husks. On the bottom sides of these boards sharp stones were embedded, and the boards were then dragged across the grain on a threshing floor by an ox or donkey. |
| (0.5018774516129) | (1Ch 5:20) |
1 tn Heb “and they were helped against them and they were given over into their hand, the Hagrites and all who were with them, for to God they cried out in the battle and he was entreated [or “allowed himself to be entreated”] by them for they trusted in him.” |
| (0.5018774516129) | (1Ch 24:4) |
1 tn Heb “And the sons of Eleazar were found to be more, with respect to the heads of men, than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them. To the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads, according to the house of the fathers; and to the sons of Ithamar there were eight, according to the house of their fathers.” |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Job 9:9) |
3 sn The identification of this as the Pleiades is accepted by most (the Vulgate has “Hyades”). In classical Greek mythology, the seven Pleiades were seven sisters of the Hyades who were pursued by Orion until they were changed into stars by Zeus. The Greek myth is probably derived from an older Semitic myth. |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Isa 66:2) |
2 tn Heb “and all these were.” Some prefer to emend וַיִּהְיוּ (vayyihyu, “and they were”) to וְלִי הָיוּ (vÿli hayu, “and to me they were”), i.e., “and they belong to me.” |
| (0.5018774516129) | (Mic 3:5) |
2 tn Heb “those who bite with their teeth and cry out, ‘peace.’” The phrase “bite with the teeth” is taken here as idiomatic for eating. Apparently these prophets were driven by mercenary motives. If they were paid well, they gave positive oracles to their clients, but if someone could not afford to pay them, they were hostile and delivered oracles of doom. |
