Unanswered Questions
417 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How might Matthew 16:22 in the Codex Vaticanus be best translated to reflect the etymology of the text?
While translating Matthew 16 today, I ran across what the NET Bible calls a "highly elliptical expression" in verse 22:
καὶ προσλαβόμενος αὐτὸν ὁ Πέτρος ἤρξατο ἐπιτιμᾶν αὐτῷ λέγων·
Ἵλεώς σοι, ...
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Does the acrostic structure of Lamentations indicate a composition from 5 separate psalms?
It's not noticeable in many English translations, but Lamentations makes heavy use of the acrostic technique of Hebrew poetry. As a note in the NET Bible mentions:
Chapters 1-4 are arranged in ...
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What is Job saying he believes about death and what follows in Job 14?
Job makes several interesting statements in chapter 14 about death.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?
11 As waters fail from a lake
and a river ...
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Hebrew translations of the Aramaic Texts
Several sections of the Old Testament are written in Aramaic. With the Old Testament, we will often examine translations like the Greek Septuagint, the Aramaic Targumim, and the Syriac Peshitta in ...
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Did Nathan and Bathsheba fabricate an oath regarding Solomon?
In 1 Kings 1:11-14, Nathan and Bathsheba formulate a plan to have David make Solomon his successor as king rather than Adonijah, a plan which includes an oath:
Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon’...
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What does צבאות actually mean, and why was it only ever transliterated into Greek and not translated?
Revelation 4:8 (DRB)
And the four living creatures had each of them six wings; and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord ...
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Are the verses in Num. 17:12-13 misplaced?
The Israelites said to Moses, “We will die! We are lost, we are all
lost! 13 Anyone who even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord will
die. Are we all going to die?”
The text doesn't give us a ...
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Was the city of Emmaus along a populated route from Jerusalem?
Luke 24:13,
"And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." (KJV)
As Emmaus was 60 furlongs from Jerusalem, and as 1 ...
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Is Revelation 12:6, 14 considered an inclusio?
Would the term inclusio be correctly applied to Revelation 12:6 ("Then the woman fled into the wilderness . . .") and verse 14 ("the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she ...
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Did Absalom have 3 sons (2 Samuel 14:27) or none (2 Samuel 18:18)?
Is there a contradiction between 2 Samuel 14:27 and 18:18?
There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was
Tamar. She was a beautiful woman. (2 Samuel 14:27 ESV)
Now ...
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'Turn“ or ”return" in Songs of Songs 6:13?
The MT version reads,
שׁוּבִי שׁוּבִי הַשּׁוּלַמִּית, שׁוּבִי שׁוּבִי וְנֶחֱזֶה-בָּךְ;
מַה-תֶּחֱזוּ, בַּשּׁוּלַמִּית, כִּמְחֹלַת, הַמַּחֲנָיִם.
The Hebrew word שׁוּבִי is repeated several times ...
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The use of הָאֵ֑לֶּה and הָהֵ֔ם in Zechariah 8
In Zechariah 8 we read (KJV):
[9] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these (הָאֵ֑לֶּה) days these (הָאֵ֑לֶּה) words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in ...
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What does the structure say about the main purpose of Ecclesiastes 3:2-8?
Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 lists 28 events grouped in contrasting pairs which are connected by the phrase עֵ֥ת...וְעֵ֣ת. Each couplet is made up of one event which can considered as positive and another which ...
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Luke 15:8-10, Silver Coin Semedi Headdress in 1st Century Palestine?
In Luke 15, verses 8-10, the Bible tells a story about a woman who loses a silver coin or drachma:
“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep ...
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Why does Yhwh instruct Moses to leave him alone in Exodus 32:10?
In Exodus 32:10, after the LORD's brief monologue on the golden calf incident (vv. 7-9), speaking to Moses he says:
וְעַתָּה הַנִּ֣יחָה לִּי וְיִֽחַר־אַפִּ֥י בָהֶם וַאֲכַלֵּ֑ם וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה אוֹתְךָ ...
