H3027

• {"n":"yad","s":"Hand, and with it power, agency and control.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=yad","r":"Exodus 13:3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read hand, and power or control where the idiom would be confusing."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**The matter is in your hands.** Nobody is holding anything. English does this and hears nothing strange in it."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Yad is the hand and by extension strength, authority and possession. Into the hand of means into the power of. It also forms prepositions, as body-part nouns regularly do in Hebrew."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"The English metaphor lines up, so most of the range survives translation intact."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a Hebrew idiom works in English, that is worth noticing too. It means the metaphor is shared and you can trust your instinct on it."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Hand is the majority rendering by a wide margin."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d9\u05b8\u05d3 yad \u00b7 H3027"}],"src":["a mighty hand: Exodus 13:3; Deuteronomy 26:8","into the hand of: Judges 2:14","yad as a monument or memorial: 1 Samuel 15:12"]}