Discovery Box| (0.40670314285714) | (Gen 49:19) |
1 sn In Hebrew the name Gad (גָּד, gad ) sounds like the words translated “raided” (יְגוּדֶנּוּ, yÿgudennu) and “marauding bands” (גְּדוּד, gÿdud). |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Exo 15:24) |
2 sn It is likely that Moses used words very much like this when he prayed. The difference seems to lie in the prepositions – he cried “to” Yahweh, but the people murmured “against” Moses. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Exo 19:10) |
2 tn The form is a perfect 3cpl with a vav (ו) consecutive. It is instructional as well, but now in the third person it is like a jussive, “let them wash, make them wash.” |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Exo 25:38) |
1 sn The first word refers to something like small tongs or tweezers used to pull up and trim the wicks; the second word refers to fire-pans or censers. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Exo 28:1) |
2 tn The verb is the Hiphil imperative of the root קָרַב (qarav, “to draw near”). In the present stem the word has religious significance, namely, to present something to God, like an offering. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Lev 5:13) |
5 tn Heb “and it shall be to the priest like the grain offering,” referring to the rest of the grain that was not offered on the altar (cf. the regulations in Lev 2:3, 10). |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Lev 18:10) |
1 sn That is, to have sexual intercourse with one’s granddaughter would be like openly exposing one’s own shameful nakedness (see the note on v. 7 above). |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Num 12:7) |
1 sn The title “my servant” or “servant of the |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Num 14:4) |
2 tn The verb is נָתַן (natan, “to give”), but this verb has quite a wide range of meanings in the Bible. Here it must mean “to make,” “to choose,” “to designate” or the like. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Num 21:1) |
2 sn The name Arad probably refers to a place a number of miles away from Tel Arad in southern Israel. The name could also refer to the whole region (like Edom). |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Num 21:15) |
1 tc There are many variations in this text, but the MT reading of something like “the descent of the torrents/valleys” is preferable, since it is describing the topography. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Num 22:38) |
1 tn The verb is אוּכַל (’ukhal) in a question – “am I able?” But emphasizing this is the infinitive absolute before it. So Balaam is saying something like, “Can I really say anything?” |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Deu 14:12) |
3 tn The Hebrew term עָזְנִיָּה (’ozniyyah) may describe the black vulture (so NIV) or it may refer to the osprey (so NAB, NRSV, NLT), an eagle-like bird subsisting mainly on fish. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Deu 28:49) |
2 tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Deu 32:5) |
3 tn Heb “defect” (so NASB). This highly elliptical line suggests that Israel’s major fault was its failure to act like God’s people; in fact, they acted quite the contrary. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Deu 32:41) |
1 tn Heb “judgment.” This is a metonymy, a figure of speech in which the effect (judgment) is employed as an instrument (sword, spear, or the like), the means, by which it is brought about. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Jos 24:22) |
2 sn Like witnesses in a court of law, Israel’s solemn vow to worship the Lord will testify against them in the divine court if the nation ever violates its commitment. |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Jdg 18:3) |
2 tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263). |
| (0.40670314285714) | (Rut 4:12) |
2 tn Heb “and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the offspring whom the |
| (0.40670314285714) | (1Sa 10:9) |
3 tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.” |
