Discovery Box| (0.45242229850746) | (Act 2:27) |
1 tn Or “will not abandon my soul to Hades.” Often “Hades” is the equivalent of the Hebrew term Sheol, the place of the dead. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Act 2:34) |
1 sn Sit at my right hand. The word “sit” alludes back to the promise of “seating one on his throne” in v. 30. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Act 7:60) |
2 sn The remarks Lord Jesus, receive my spirit and Lord, do not hold this sin against them recall statements Jesus made on the cross (Luke 23:34, 46). |
| (0.45242229850746) | (2Co 1:23) |
1 tn Grk “I call upon God as witness against my soul.” Normally this implies an appeal for help (L&N 33.176). |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Eph 6:19) |
2 tn Grk “that a word may be given to me in the opening of my mouth.” Here “word” (λόγος, logo") is used in the sense of “message.” |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Phi 1:7) |
3 tn Grk “in my bonds.” The meaning “imprisonment” derives from a figurative extension of the literal meaning (“bonds,” “fetters,” “chains”), L&N 37.115. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (2Ti 3:10) |
2 tn The possessive “my” occurs only at the beginning of the list but is positioned in Greek to apply to each of the words in the series. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Phm 1:10) |
3 sn During my imprisonment. Apparently Onesimus became a believer under Paul’s shepherding while he [Paul] was a prisoner in Rome. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Phm 1:12) |
2 tn That is, “who means a great deal to me”; Grk “whom I have sent to you, him, this one is my heart.” |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Phm 1:19) |
3 sn With my own hand. Paul may have considered this letter so delicate that he wrote the letter himself as opposed to using an amanuensis or secretary. |
| (0.45242229850746) | (Rev 3:12) |
4 sn This description of the city of my God is parenthetical, explaining further the previous phrase and interrupting the list of “new names” given here. |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Gen 24:2) |
2 sn Put your hand under my thigh. The taking of this oath had to do with the sanctity of the family and the continuation of the family line. See D. R. Freedman, “Put Your Hand Under My Thigh – the Patriarchal Oath,” BAR 2 (1976): 2-4, 42. |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Gen 27:25) |
3 tn Heb “so that my soul may bless you.” The presence of נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) as subject emphasizes Isaac’s heartfelt desire to do this. The conjunction indicates that the ritual meal must be first eaten before the formal blessing may be given. |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Gen 30:8) |
2 sn The name Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי, naftali) must mean something like “my struggle” in view of the statement Rachel made in the preceding clause. The name plays on this earlier statement, “[with] a mighty struggle I have struggled with my sister.” |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Gen 30:26) |
1 tn Heb “give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you.” In one sense Laban had already “given” Jacob his two daughters as wives (Gen 29:21, 28). Here Jacob was asking for permission to take his own family along with him on the journey back to Canaan. |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Gen 49:6) |
1 tn The Hebrew text reads “my glory,” but it is preferable to repoint the form and read “my liver.” The liver was sometimes viewed as the seat of the emotions and will (see HALOT 456 s.v. II כָּבֵד) for which the heart is the modern equivalent. |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Exo 4:10) |
2 tn The word בִּי (bi) is a particle of entreaty; it seeks permission to speak and is always followed by “my lord” or “my Lord.” Often rendered “please,” it is “employed in petitions, complaints and excuses” (W. H. C. Propp, Exodus 1–18 [AB], 213). |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Exo 10:28) |
2 tn Heb “add to see my face.” The construction uses a verbal hendiadys: “do not add to see” (אַל־תֹּסֶף רְאוֹת, ’al-toseph rÿ’ot), meaning “do not see again.” The phrase “see my face” means “come before me” or “appear before me.” |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Lev 19:37) |
1 tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31). |
| (0.43886632835821) | (Lev 20:22) |
1 tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.). |
