Discovery Box| (0.57142114583333) | (Rom 4:12) |
2 tn Grk “the ‘in-uncircumcision faith’ of our father Abraham.” |
| (0.56713409375) | (Gen 4:20) |
1 tn Heb “father.” In this passage the word “father” means “founder,” referring to the first to establish such lifestyles and occupations. |
| (0.56713409375) | (1Ki 15:11) |
2 tn Heb “father,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors. |
| (0.56713409375) | (1Ki 15:19) |
1 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.” |
| (0.56713409375) | (2Ch 16:3) |
1 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.” |
| (0.51427395833333) | (2Jo 1:4) |
3 tn Grk “just as we received commandment from the Father.” The idiom “we received commandment from the Father” means the Father gave (a) commandment to them (the author plus the recipients). |
| (0.50681046875) | (Gen 27:38) |
1 tn Heb “Bless me, me also, my father.” The words “my father” have not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.50681046875) | (Gen 36:9) |
1 sn The term father in genealogical records needs to be carefully defined. It can refer to a literal father, a grandfather, a political overlord, or a founder. |
| (0.50681046875) | (Gen 45:8) |
1 tn Heb “a father.” The term is used here figuratively of one who gives advice, as a father would to his children. |
| (0.50681046875) | (Lev 20:9) |
3 tn Heb “makes light of his father and his mother.” Almost all English versions render this as some variation of “curses his father or mother.” |
| (0.50681046875) | (Jos 2:18) |
3 tn Heb “and your father and your mother and your brothers and all the house of your father gather to yourself to the house.” |
| (0.50681046875) | (2Sa 16:22) |
2 tn Heb “went to”; NAB “he visited his father’s concubines”; NIV “lay with his father’s concubines”; TEV “went in and had intercourse with.” |
| (0.50681046875) | (1Ki 1:5) |
1 tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father. |
| (0.50681046875) | (Est 2:7) |
3 tn Heb “for there was not to her father or mother.” This is universally understood to mean Esther’s father and mother were no longer alive. |
| (0.50681046875) | (Job 15:10) |
3 tn The line reads: “[men] greater than your father [in] days.” The expression “in days” underscores their age – they were older than Job’s father, and therefore wiser. |
| (0.48611070833333) | (Gen 5:22) |
2 tn Heb “and Enoch walked with God, after he became the father of Methuselah, [for] 300 years.” |
| (0.48611070833333) | (Gen 10:2) |
5 sn Javan was the father of the Hellenic race, the Ionians who lived in western Asia Minor. |
| (0.48611070833333) | (Gen 10:28) |
2 sn The name Abimael is a genuine Sabean form which means “my father, truly, he is God.” |
| (0.48611070833333) | (Gen 19:34) |
3 tn Heb “And go, lie down with him and we will keep alive from our father descendants.” |
| (0.48611070833333) | (Gen 26:18) |
6 tn Heb “called names to them according to the names that his father called them.” |
