Discovery Box| (0.25626807835821) | (Jon 2:3) |
3 tn Heb “heart” (so many English versions); CEV “to the (+ very TEV) bottom of the sea.” |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Mat 15:39) |
1 sn Magadan was a place along the Sea of Galilee, the exact location of which is uncertain. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Luk 12:54) |
2 sn A cloud rising in the west refers to moisture coming from the Mediterranean Sea. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Joh 6:17) |
1 tn Or “sea.” See the note on “lake” in the previous verse. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Act 16:11) |
4 sn Samothrace is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Act 20:15) |
4 sn Samos is an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Act 27:27) |
2 sn The Adriatic Sea. They were now somewhere between Crete and Malta. |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Jam 3:7) |
1 tn Grk (plurals), “every kind of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures.” |
| (0.25626807835821) | (Rev 15:2) |
2 sn See Rev 4:6 where the sea of glass was mentioned previously. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Num 21:4) |
1 tn The “Red Sea” is the general designation for the bodies of water on either side of the Sinai peninsula, even though they are technically gulfs from the Red Sea. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (2Ch 20:2) |
2 tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT). |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Job 26:12) |
2 tn Heb “Rahab” (רָהַב), the mythical sea monster that represents the forces of chaos in ancient Near Eastern literature. In the translation the words “the great sea monster” have been supplied appositionally in order to clarify “Rahab.” |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Psa 46:2) |
3 tn Heb “heart of the seas.” The plural may be used for emphasis, pointing to the deepest sea. Note that the next verse uses a singular pronoun (“its waters,” “its swelling”) in referring back to the plural noun. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Psa 65:7) |
2 sn The raging seas…the commotion made by the nations. The raging seas symbolize the turbulent nations of the earth (see Ps 46:2-3, 6; Isa 17:12). |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Isa 23:4) |
2 sn The sea is personified here as a lamenting childless woman. The foreboding language anticipates the following announcement of Tyre’s demise, viewed here as a child of the sea, as it were. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Mat 8:5) |
1 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Mat 11:23) |
1 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region. |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Mat 14:34) |
1 sn Gennesaret was a fertile plain south of Capernaum (see also Mark 6:53). The Sea of Galilee was also sometimes known as the Sea of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1). |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Mat 18:6) |
3 tn The term translated “open” here (πελάγει, pelagei) refers to the open sea as opposed to a stretch of water near a coastline (BDAG 794 s.v. πέλαγος). A similar English expression would be “the high seas.” |
| (0.23120190298507) | (Mar 2:1) |
2 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region. |
