⁴ tn Heb “were spread to many”; KJV, NIV “many (+ people NLT) lay in sackcloth and ashes.”

¹ tn Heb “to send a hand against”; KJV, NRSV “to lay hands on.”

² tn Heb “and he lay with her.” The phrase is a euphemism for sexual relations.

³ tn Heb “and they lay in wait for him all night in the city gate.”

² tn The verb יָקַשׁ (yaqash) means “to lay a bait; to lure; to lay snares.” In the Niphal it means “to be caught by bait; to be ensnared”—here in a business entanglement.

¹ tn In context “laying hands on anyone” refers to ordination or official installation of someone as an elder.

¹ tn Heb “and if you do not place upon [the] heart”; KJV, NAB, NRSV “lay it to heart.”

² tn Heb “they put anger.” This is usually interpreted to mean they lay up anger, or put anger in their hearts.

¹ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

² tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

⁷ tn Heb “one will expose.” The subject is probably indefinite, though one could translate, “for he [i.e., God] will lay bare.”

¹ tn Heb “they heap up dirt.” This is a reference to the piling up of earthen ramps in the process of laying siege to a fortified city.

¹ sn See the study note on Jer 48:8 for reference to this tableland or high plain that lay between the Arnon and Heshbon.

¹ tn Heb “snare of a man.” The word “snare” is the figurative meaning of the noun מוֹקֵשׁ (“bait; lure” from יָקַשׁ [yaqash, “to lay a bait, or lure”]).

³ sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.

¹ tn The meaning may have the connotation of “lays; places,” rather than simply abandoning (see M. Dahood, “The Root ʿzb II in Job,” JBL 78 [1959]: 307f.).

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

³ tn Heb “he lay down with her.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.

¹ tn The legal construction states the class to which the law applies, and then lays down the condition: “men [man]—if….”

² sn That is, when the lay people eat portions of offerings that should have been eaten only by priests and those who belonged to priestly households.