Judges 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ¹  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ²  belly.

Judges 8:20

8:20 He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! ³  Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, ⁴  because he was still young.

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ⁵  assembled his whole army, ⁶  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

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¹ tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Or “Arise!”

⁴ tn Heb “did not draw his sword for he was afraid.”

⁵ tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

⁶ tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).