translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET study note

text: By the wife of Uriah , i.e., Bathsheba (cf. 2 Sam 11:3 ).


text: Before the mention of Jeconiah , several medieval mss add Jehoiakim, in conformity with the genealogy in 1 Chr 3:15-16 . But this alters the count of fourteen generations (v. 17 ). It is evident that the author is selective in his genealogy for a theological purpose.


text: The Greek text and the KJV read Salathiel. Most modern English translations use the OT form of the name (cf. Ezra 3:2 ).


text: ] 33 Ï co), and therefore should be regarded as authentic. For a detailed discussion of this textual problem, see TCGNT 2-6. The pronoun whom is feminine gender in the Greek text, referring to Mary.


text: The Greek form of the name Ihsous , which was translated into Latin as Jesus , is the same as the Hebrew Yeshua (Joshua), which means “Yahweh saves” (Yahweh is typically rendered as “Lord” in the OT). It was a fairly common name among Jews in 1st century Palestine, as references to a number of people by this name in the LXX and Josephus indicate.


text: A quotation from Isa 7:14 .


text: An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).