Thus 9:2-21 in the English Bible = 9:1-20 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with <b>10:1b> the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the ...

The Old Hebrew alphabet contained 22 letters, all consonants. The order of these letters is known from that of the Greek, taken in order of their numerical ...

tn The Hebrew term רִיב (riv) means “strife, conflict, quarreling.” In later texts it has the meaning of “legal controversy, dispute.” See B. Gemser, “The rîb—or ...

tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.” (0.35), (1Ki 9: ...

tn The Hebrew text includes “to the people,†but this phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

Eusebius and Jerome are emphatic and precise in recording the fact that the Gospel according to the Hebrews was not only Hebrew or Aramaic in composition, but ...

שָׁלוֹם (shalom) has a wide range of meaning. The connotation is that there is no peace within; the speaker is too troubled for any calm ...

tn Heb “is an abomination.” The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (toʿevah, “abomination”) describes something that is loathsome or off-limits. For other practices the ...

In 2:24-26 , Qoheleth is not emphasizing his own resources to enjoy life, as he had done in 2:1-11 , but that the ability to enjoy ...