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A schmorgasboard of Semitic idioms :) - drmlanc - 11-02-2003 Akhan Dave supplied these from Lamsa or whoever. See if these are good or just some of Lamsa's inventions. Any good/bad ones here Akhay Paul and Larry? --- Mt. 1:18 EN GASTRI EXOUSA: she having in the belly (=she was pregnant) Mt. 3.8 POIEW KARPON: to make fruit (=to produce results) Mt. 6:22 if your eye is good (=if you are generous) Mt. 6:23 if your eye is evil (=if you are stingy) Mt. 8:12 TO SKOTOS TO EXWTERON: the outer darkness [=a place which is dark and removed (from where righteous ones are)] Mt. 10:27 what you hear in your ear (=what you hear in secret) Mt. 10:38 he who does not take his cross (=be prepared to suffer, including die) Mt. 11:15 whoever has ears, let him hear (=everyone should listen carefully) Mt. 22:16 you do not look at the face of men (=you do not judge on the basis of external appearances) Mt. 23:32 Fill up the measure of your fathers! (=finish what your ancestors began) Mk. 1:32 those having badly (=those who were sick) Mk. 2:19 sons of the groom (=guests of the bridegroom) Mk. 3.21 hOI PAR' AUTOU: those beside him (=his family) Mk. 9:1 taste death (=die) Lk. 3:5 EIMI EIS "to be into" (=to change into) Lk. 16:22 KOLPOS ABRAAM: Abraham's bosom (=be with Abraham, heaven) Jn. 1:16 grace upon grace (=one blessing after another; blessed time after time) Jn. 2:4 what to me and to you? (Hebraism; =what does that have to do with us?) Jn. 9:24 DIDWMI DOXAN TW QEW: give glory to God (=promise under oath to tell the truth) Jn. 20:26 Peace be to you! (=Hello; a literal Greek translation from the most common Hebraic greeting, "shalom") Acts 11:22 News of this came to the ears of the church (=the church heard about it) Acts 15:10 placing a yoke on the neck (=burdening with obligations) Acts 17:21 doing/making time (=spending time) Acts 18:6 Your blood be upon your heads! (=You yourselves must take the blame for it!) Acts 18:14 to open the mouth (=to speak) Acts 20:33 ARGURION KAI CRUSION: silver and gold (=money) Acts 22:14 to hear the voice (sound) of his mouth (=hear him speak) Acts 26:14 PROS KENTRON LAKTIZEIN: kick against the goad (=to hurt oneself by active resistance) Acts 28:27 they hear heavily with their ears (=be slow to understand) Acts 28:27 hear with their ears (reflects Hebraic "cognate" construction; =to listen intently) Rom. 1:17 from faith to faith (=faith from start to finish; see Benware article in The Bible Translator journal for this meaning) Rom. 12:9 AGAPH ANUPOKRITOS: let love be not speaking from underneath (a mask) (=love without hypocrisy) Rom. 12:20 you will heap burning coals on his head (=you will be very kind to him) 1 Cor. 7:35 BROCON EPIBALW: throw a bridle on (=restrict, control, impose restrictions) 1 Cor. 14:9 EIS AERA LALOUNTES: talking into the air (=talking with no one understanding) 1 Cor. 15:40 SWMATA EPOURANIA: heavenly bodies (=celestial objects) 2 Cor. 3:18 are being transformed from glory to glory (=are becoming ever more glorious) Eph. 1:23 the fullness of him who fills all in all (uncertain meaning) Col. 1:23 hUPO TON OURANON: under the sky (=on earth) 2 Thess. 3:12 eat their own bread (=work for a living) Heb. 8:9 I took them by the hand (=I carefully guided them) Heb. 12:28 Let us have grace (=Let us be thankful) James 1:23 TO PROSWPON THS GENESEWS AUTOU: the face of his birth (=his natural face) James 3:6 TON TROCON THS GENESEWS: the wheel of birth (=the cycle of life) 1 Peter 1:13 gird up the loins of your minds (=prepare your minds for action) Jude 13 hO ZOFOS TOU SKOTOUS: the gloom of darkness (=gloomy hell) Rev. 16:3 YUCH ZWHS: living soul (=living creature) Rev. 20:10 LIMNH TOU PUROS: lake of fire (=great expanse of fire, place of destruction) |